can't create Japanese locale: get a segmentation fault on generating locale

[James Keating]

Maverick 10.10 is unable to create Japanese locales on my wife's laptop (Acer Aspire 3000). This machine previously had no such problem. The install is a fresh install, since the machine froze during the upgrade (no fault of Ubuntu's). A possible complication is that it froze several times more during the install, and I have gone through many recovery boots and iterations of dpkg configure.

All relevant packages are installed, I believe. Everything else works. Through System, Administration, Language Support, I have installed all components of English and Japanese. Currently English is selected. Japanese should appear in the list but does not.

Japanese text appears properly, and I can write in Japanese, ノープロブレム. But all the menus are in English. Fine by me, but my wife will want Japanese when she uses the computer again (not soon).

This mostly likely is a glibc/libc6 problem, as far as I can tell. I can't find any other Ubuntu user with this problem recently.

And now, some outputs:

1. dpkg-reconfigure locales

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
en_AG.UTF-8... done
en_AU.UTF-8... done
en_BW.UTF-8... done
en_CA.UTF-8... done
en_DK.UTF-8... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_HK.UTF-8... done
en_IE.UTF-8... done
en_IN.UTF-8... done
en_NG.UTF-8... done
en_NZ.UTF-8... done
en_PH.UTF-8... done
en_SG.UTF-8... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_ZA.UTF-8... done
en_ZW.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 236: 13102 Segmentation fault localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias $locale
failed
ja_JP.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 236: 13129 Segmentation fault localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias $locale
failed
Generation complete.


2. locale-gen

sudo locale-gen ja_JP.UTF-8
Generating locales...
ja_JP.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 236: 13175 Segmentation fault localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias $locale
failed
Generation complete.


3. dpkg-reconfigure -a

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/acpi-support missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
acpid stop/waiting
acpid start/running, process 13240
Updating anthy.dic...file name prefix=[./] you can change this by -p option.
copying .///mkworddic/anthy.wdic (word_dic)
copying .///depgraph/anthy.dep (dep_dic)
copying .///calctrans/anthy.trans_info (trans_info)
copying .///calctrans/anthy.cand_info (cand_info)
copying .///calctrans/anthy.weak_words (weak_words)
copying .///calctrans/anthy.corpus_bucket (corpus_bucket)
copying .///calctrans/anthy.corpus_array (corpus_array)
/usr/bin/mkfiledic done.
done.
Segmentation fault


4. gnome-language selector

sudo gnome-language-selector
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py:788: GtkWarning: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed
cell = combo.get_child().get_cell_renderers()[0]


Before I re-installed all the relevant packages, gnome-language selector would not run:

sudo gnome-language-selector
(process:1758): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py:788: GtkWarning: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed
cell = combo.get_child().get_cell_renderers()[0]
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
(... repeat many times ...)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector", line 32, in <module>
options=options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 199, in __init__
self.updateLocaleChooserCombo()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 68, in wrapper
res = f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 840, in updateLocaleChooserCombo
self.updateExampleBox()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 912, in updateExampleBox
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, mylocale)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 513, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

[rafaellaguna]

I'm having a similar problem. I can't install japanese and spanish. Just keep original english from install process. When I try to generate the japanese locale it says:

ja_JP.UTF-8... cannot open locale definition file `ja_JP': No such file or directory

Any idea?