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'?

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