Setting locale failed

**spikeh** · September 30th, 2008

Fresh Ubuntu Server 8.04 install on an OVH server. Perl and subversion complains about locale. This is the error message:

Code:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

apt-get install locales tells me I already have the latest version.

dpkg-reconfigure locales throws some additional errors:

Code:

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

Here's the output from "locale"

Code:

root@xxxxxx:~# locale
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
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

/etc/locale.gen does not exist. Could this be the source of the problem?

**Wardazo** · October 28th, 2008

Hi

Just contracted a server off OVH (ubuntu 8.04 English) and have encountered exactly the same problem as soon as I ran apt-get upgrade.

Did you or anyone else find a solution?

Thanks