On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be> wrote: > On 01/07/17 15:52:20, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > hopefully some can help me. >> > >> > cat /etc/locale.gen >> > >> > gives >> > >> > en_US ISO-8859-1 >> > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 >> > C.UTF-8 >> > de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 >> > de_DE ISO-8859-1 >> > de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15 >> > >> > but >> > >> > locale-gen gives errors >> > >> > * Generating locale-archive: forcing # of jobs to 1 >> > * Generating 5 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs >> > * (1/5) Generating C.UTF-8 ... >> > character map file `de_DE' not found: No such file or directory >> > cannot open locale definition file `C': No such file or directory >> > [ >> > !! ] >> > * (2/5) Generating de_DE.ISO-8859-1 ... >> > character map file `de_DE.UTF-8' not found: No such file or directory >> > cannot open locale definition file `ISO-8859-1': No such file or directo >> > [ >> > !! ] >> > * (3/5) Generating de_DE.UTF-8 ... >> > character map file `de_DE@euro' not found: No such file or directory >> > cannot open locale definition file `UTF-8': No such file or directory >> > [ >> > !! ] >> > * (4/5) Generating de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro ... >> > character map file `en_US' not found: No such file or directory >> > cannot open locale definition file `ISO-8859-15': No such file or direct >> > [ >> > !! ] >> > * Bad entry in locale.gen: 'UTF-8 '; skipping >> > * (5/5) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ... >> > character map file `en_US.UTF-8' not found: No such file or directory >> > cannot open locale definition file `ISO-8859-1': No such file or directo >> > [ >> > !! ] >> > * Generation complete >> > >> > I've even rebuild glibc (2.24) >> > >> > /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED contains the lines >> > >> > de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 >> > de_DE ISO-8859-1 >> > de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15 >> > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 >> > en_US ISO-8859-1 >> > >> > Many thanks for a hint, >> > Helmut >> > >> >> What's the full contents of your /etc/locale.gen? >> > > There are only comments above these lines. > > Thanks, > Helmut > > >
The reason I asked for the full contents of your /etc/locale.gen is because users have been known to accidentally make typos when editing the file in question. Also, what's the output of 'locale -a' and 'localedef --list-archive'?
