was it -minimal template?
Some of templates AFAIK have removed locales,
since locales take really much space (~20Mb) while not needed in most cases
(except for the default C one).
Thanks,
Kirill
Michael Klatsky wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> I ran into a puzzling issue and found a solution- but I am wondering
> what the root cause really was, and whether others have run into this:
>
> After create a VE using the repo provided centos-4-i386-default
> template, I entered the VE via ssh. When running perl (any perl
> script), I got the message:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
>
> After doing a bit of hunting on methods to set this, including these pages:
> http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/#short
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perllocale.html#Permanently-fixing-your-system's-locale-configuration
>
> I started looking closely at glibc-common, as when I did "locale -a" I
> got the message that locale directories could not be found.
>
> I checked, and indeed- rpm -q glibc-common reported that the package
> was installed. However, after checking some of the files included that
> should have existed, I found that the local dirs were not there
> (example: /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME). So, I grabbed the
> glibc-common rpm and did a rpm -ivh --force, and voila- all was
> properly installed.
>
> The purpose of my post is to document this for others who may have run
> into this, and t solicit any theories as to why that package was
> "phantomly" installed. Significantly, other than the locale issue- the
> system was operating properly.
>
> Thanks- and so far quite impressed
>
>
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