perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

[ejmadar]

All other threads were closed already, so i started a new one. It may spare some time for you.

I have a virtual private server running Ubuntu 9.10 and got messages like this:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

To get rid of the messages I had to run this command:

# locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 hu_HU hu_HU.UTF-8

then

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

The problem was solved. I didn't had to edit any files like /etc/environment
Hope it helps for you!

I found the solution here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...41#post3540541

[gerrywastaken]

didn't fix the error for me

[sneils]

Worked fine for me, thx.

[ajeje]

Works for me as well! Thanks.

[matthewboh]

Didn't work for me either

[Dafydd]

Didn't work for me either

Worked perfectly for me (Ubuntu 10.04). I just ran:

sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 cy_GB.UTF-8


Replaced hungarian (hu) for Welsh (cy).

[studiogrynn]

Worked great! Thank you!!

[epasha]

Thank's you. For russuan

# sudo locale-gen ru_RU ru_RU.UTF-8 ru_RU ru_RU.UTF-8

[CritiKaster]

This was in the right direction, but unfortunately, didn't fix it for me. What did, however, was this:

http://bookmarks.honewatson.com/2009...ttings-ubuntu/

EDIT:

Further investigation shows the fix in my case was even easier than I thought, before:

$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE=UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

So I set LC_TYPE and LC_ALL manually like so:

$ export LC_TYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
$ export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

The result is a fix:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

SECOND EDIT:

.. Unfortunately, the above 'solution' only worked for that terminal session. As soon as I reconnected, locale errors rained down on me again..

Delving furhter into this issue, I came across:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...ning-from-perl

What permanently fixed it for me is commenting out the following directive in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config (on the remote host):

AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

Having eliminated that line, and reloading my ssh daemon, this issue was resolved.