I had a similar problem, where perl and many other programs would complain about being unable to set locale. Rebuilding locales with locale-gen appeared to work, but the problem persisted.
Tracing uncovered that LC_COLLATE was being refused for some reason, and using LC_COLLATE=C avoided the problem entirely. It seems that the "locales" and "libc6" pacakges have a version dependency that isn't picked up by the package management system -- upgrading "locales" to match libc6 returned my system to a happy state. -- crashes "locale" "gtk-applets" https://launchpad.net/bugs/64006 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
