On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I just tried to update my system but emerging app-misc/ca-certificate > failed with this error: > ------------------- > File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 178, in > _unicode_encode > s = s.encode(encoding, errors) > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u011f' in > position 68: ordinal not in range(128) > >>>> Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificates-20111025, Log file: > > * This package installs one or more file names containing characters that > * do not match your current locale settings. The current setting for > * filesystem encoding is 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'. > > * For best results, UTF-8 encoding is recommended. See the Gentoo Linux > * Localization Guide for instructions about how to configure your > * locale for UTF-8 encoding: > * > * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml > ------------------- > > I did not have any /etc/env.d/02locale file, so I created > one with LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" in it, but I still get the same > error. I tried en_US.UTF-8 or en_EN.UTF-8 with the same > results. I really do not understand what ca-certificates > needs to get it installed... > > Jarry > -- > _______________________________________________________________ > This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! > Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. >
Having set up three Gentoo installs in the last month, and I've seen this each time. It's blunt, but a mixture of "emerge -e --keep-going @world", "shutdown -r now" and "emerge --resume --keep-going" commands clears it up. -- :wq
