On 8 Nov 2014 07:54, "Eric Keller" <keller.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am currently using LXC (debian wheezy) container on my Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit distribution. > > setting up the container, goes fine but the locale are not working accordingly. > > $ 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_US.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_US: > 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= > > I did apply the usual tricks (https://wiki.debian.org/Locale) to setup the locale in vain. The locale command continue to throw me the same errors! > > the update-locale also behave in a strange way: > sudo /usr/sbin/update-locale > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = "en_US:", > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8", > LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > *** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > as does the dpkg-reconfigure locales: > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive locales > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = "en_US:", > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8", > 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 > Generating locales (this might take a while)... > en_US.UTF-8...cannot change mode of new locale archive: No such file or directory > done > Generation complete. > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = "en_US:", > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8", > LANG = "C" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > > has someone a hint where I could investigate > > N.B.: /etc/default/locale /etc/locale.gen and /etc/profile are set according to the debian wiki page > > here are the deailed setup steps executed in the container as root: > > apt-get purge locales-all > dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive locales > echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen > echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/default/locale > /usr/sbin/locale-gen > echo ": ${LANG:=en_US.UTF-8}; export LANG" > /etc/profile.d/language
Hi Eric, I'm not a Debian user, nor an expert on locales. But to me it looks like you haven't installed an English locale, specifically the US one. Regards, Neil
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