On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 10:52:47AM +0100, Lucio Messina wrote: > STEP TO REPRODUCE: > 1. have a debian fresh install > 2. run `/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure locales` > 3. select the locales to generate > 4. select the default locale > > EXPECTED OUTCOME > locales are regenerated without errors > > ACTUAL OUTCOME > dpkg-reconfigure crashes with error > /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postinst: 64: locale-gen: not found > > REASON > /usr/sbin is not in PATH by default, so the executable for locale-gen is not > found. Manually running `/usr/bin/locale-gen` finishes the process as > expected. > Adding /usr/sbin to PATH before running `locale-gen` also works.
dpkg-reconfigure should only be run as root, and root's PATH normally contains /usr/sbin. It's not dpkg-reconfigure's job to set this up. Can you explain more about the context in which you ran "/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure locales" (e.g. how exactly did you acquire a root shell)? -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
