On 2009-04-13 19:21:23 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > The problem is that if I remove the lines setting LANG and LANGUAGE from > /root/.bashrc > I get the following when I enter superuser via "sudo -i" ... > >> rbtho...@greybox:~$ sudo -i >> greybox:~# 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="C" >> LANGUAGE="C" >> LC_CTYPE=""C"" >> LC_NUMERIC=""C"" >> LC_TIME=""C"" >> LC_COLLATE=""C"" >> LC_MONETARY=""C"" >> LC_MESSAGES=""C"" >> LC_PAPER=""C"" >> LC_NAME=""C"" >> LC_ADDRESS=""C"" >> LC_TELEPHONE=""C"" >> LC_MEASUREMENT=""C"" >> LC_IDENTIFICATION=""C"" >> LC_ALL= >> greybox:~#
Thanks. I understand the problem a bit better. So, it seems that if LANG is not set at "sudo -i" time, something sets it to "C" (with the double-quotes) instead of just C. The additional double-quotes in the LC_ lines in locale output is just a consequence: this means that these environment variables are not set and the default values (from other settings, e.g. LANG) is "C" (with the double-quotes). To be sure, after the "sudo -i", can you type the following? env | grep LANG Note that you can reproduce the problem with: $ export LANG='"C"' $ locale Now, you have to find why LANG gets this wrong value (ditto for LANGUAGE, but this doesn't have a consequence on the other variables). If you replace LANG="C" by LANG=C in /etc/environment, can you still observe the same problem? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
