locale errors found & fixed

1997-06-19 Thread Helmut Geyer
Well, open mouth extract foot,.. When doing a complete reinstall of all involved packages, I finally found out that I had a messed up locale directory. So everything would work for me, but not for anyone else :( So here's the problem: libc6 and libc5 use different magic numbers for their locale f

Re: locale errors

1997-06-19 Thread Helmut Geyer
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sorry Helmut, but: > > gauss:meskes 124) dpkg -l libc5\* libc6\* locale\* perl\* | grep ii > ii libc5 5.4.33-4 The Linux C library version 5 > (run-time libr > ii libc5-altdev5.4.33-4 The Linux C library version

RE: locale errors

1997-06-19 Thread Michael Meskes
Michael Meskes; debian-devel@lists.debian.org >Cc:Die Adresse des Empfängers ist unbekannt. >Subject: Re: locale errors > >Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a >> libc6 version of pe

Re: locale errors

1997-06-19 Thread Helmut Geyer
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a > libc6 version of perl and everything should be fine again. > Yes, you can (at least I'm having no trouble at all whenusing glibc 2.0.4-1 and locales 2.0.4-1). _Please_ try these p

Re: locale errors

1997-06-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) wrote on 17.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a > > > libc6 ve

RE: locale errors

1997-06-18 Thread Michael Meskes
Ben Pfaff >Cc:Die Adresse des Empfängers ist unbekannt. >Subject: Re: locale errors > > >Damn, pinepgp is screwing up auto signatures. Sorry. > >=== > >> On 17 Jun 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> >>

Re: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Erv Walter
Damn, pinepgp is screwing up auto signatures. Sorry. === > On 17 Jun 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in <[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]>: > > > > >

Re: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Erv Walter
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Re: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a > > libc6 version of perl and everything should be fine again. > > This is, of course, a problem n

Re: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomislav Vujec) wrote on 17.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 15.06.97 in > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I got that (with perl only) > > > before I installed debian; it doesn't like locale setti

Re: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a > libc6 version of perl and everything should be fine again. This is, of course, a problem nearly as serious as that about utmp. MfG Kai -- TO

Re: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tomislav Vujec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But setting LANG to _correct_ value (e.g. en or en_US) might help. perl was giving me errors when I had it set to en_GB (before I installed debian).

RE: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Michael Meskes
o:debian-devel@lists.debian.org >Cc:Die Adresse des Empfängers ist unbekannt. >Subject: Re: locale errors > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 15.06.97 in >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I got that

Re: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Tomislav Vujec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 15.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I got that (with perl only) before I installed debian; it doesn't like > > locale settings that other programs seem to get on with OK. Try removing the > > LANG variable and i

Re: locale errors

1997-06-16 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 15.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > LANG = "us" > > are supported and installed on your system. > > perl: warning

Re: locale errors

1997-06-16 Thread Ricardas Cepas
On Jun 15, Mark Baker wrote > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Erv Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > LANG = "us" > > are supported and ins

Re: locale errors]

1997-06-15 Thread Erv Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Mark Baker wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Erv Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LC_ALL = (unset), > >

Re: locale errors

1997-06-15 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erv Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "us" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Fall

Re: locale errors

1997-06-15 Thread Erv Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 15 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erv Walter) wrote on 13.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Please tell me how to solve this problem > > Do you have libc6 and friends installed? That seems to be what causes this > for me. > > MfG

Re: locale errors

1997-06-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erv Walter) wrote on 13.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The locale errors are getting extremely annoying. What is the most > correct way to solve the problems. unsetting LANG solves the problem, > but I can't find where it is getting set in the first plac

locale errors

1997-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
Erv Walter writes: > The locale errors are getting extremely annoying. What is the most > correct way to solve the problems. unsetting LANG solves the problem, > but I can't find where it is getting set in the first place. That's > not the most elegant solution a

locale errors

1997-06-14 Thread Erv Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The locale errors are getting extremely annoying. What is the most correct way to solve the problems. unsetting LANG solves the problem, but I can't find where it is getting set in the first place. That's not the most elegant solution anyway.