Hi Norbert, On Monday, 10 October 2022 16:23:25 AEDT Norbert Preining wrote: > What happens if you only feed LANG=C? Does it break?
LANG=C seems to make no difference to solving the problem (it's already protected in the code as you say), likewise LANGUAGE=C makes no difference. The only other LC_* item I have in my environment is LC_TIME and setting that to LC_TIME=C solves the issue. > I am just wondering what other locale vars are necessary, back then > we thought (and it worked bakc then) that LANG is enough. LC_TIME seems to fix it - details below - I'm not sure if it's just because LC_TIME is special to fmutil in some way or if other LC_* would also break it. Setting LC_ALL=C seems to be an adequate workaround as that overrides all LC_* environment variables in one step. To help, a reproducer below. cheers Stuart # current locale-relevant environment: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 # full locale $ locale LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ sudo env http_proxy=http://localhost:3142/ debootstrap --arch=amd64 -- variant=minbase bookworm /srv/chroots/tmp/bookworm http://deb.debian.org/ debian $ cat /etc/schroot/chroot.d/bookworm-1021515 [bookworm-1021515] description=Debian bookworm (testing) type=directory directory=/srv/chroots/tmp/bookworm users=stuart root-users=stuart profile=desktop # I'm letting schroot preserve the environment (-p) here, that's deliberate # to provoke the bug. Perl also bleats about this icky configuration but it's # non-fatal. $ schroot -c bookworm-1021515 -p -q -u root -- apt install --no-install- recommends texlive-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: [...] Do you want to continue? [Y/n] [...] perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8", LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed [...] Setting up texlive-base (2022.20220722-1) ... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to a4: /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/ config-paper.ps tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to a4: /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/ dvipdfmx-paper.cfg tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to a4: /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to a4: /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/tex- ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Processing triggers for tex-common (6.17) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.jbVdJmwu Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tex-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # Poking at a few environment variables to see what the response would be # follows. In turn, # - apt -f install [fails] # - LANG=C apt -f install [fails] # - LANGUAGE=C apt -f install [fails] # - LANG=C LANGUAGE=C apt -f install [fails] # - LC_TIME=C apt -f install [works] # - LC_ALL=C apt -f install [works] (bookworm-1021515)root@simurgh:/# apt -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8", LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Setting up tex-common (6.17) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.tWrjZsmG Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tex-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (bookworm-1021515)root@simurgh:/# LANG=C apt -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8", LANG = "C" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Setting up tex-common (6.17) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.pMKJa8bE Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tex-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (bookworm-1021515)root@simurgh:/# LANGUAGE=C apt -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "C", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8", LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Setting up tex-common (6.17) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.H2hOq81d Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tex-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (bookworm-1021515)root@simurgh:/# LANG=C LANGUAGE=C apt -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "C", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8", LANG = "C" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Setting up tex-common (6.17) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.aWLaegHN Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tex-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (bookworm-1021515)root@simurgh:/# LC_TIME=C apt -f install bash: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale (en_GB.UTF-8): No such file or directory Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_TIME = "C", LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Setting up tex-common (6.17) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... done. # (breaking it with a "dpkg -r --force-depends tex-common" so that I could try # some other things) (bookworm-1021515)root@simurgh:/# LC_ALL=C apt -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up tex-common (6.17) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... done. bash: _powerline_status_wrapper: command not found bash: _direnv_hook: command not found -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
