Re: locale problems

2015-03-17 Thread Frank
On 03/16/2015 08:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: cat /etc/default/locale root@frank-debian:/home/frank# cat /etc/default/locale #LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Unexpected..I thought it would be empty ? For whatever reason the locales package postinst script simply comments out

Re: locale problems

2015-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > cat /etc/default/locale > > root@frank-debian:/home/frank# cat /etc/default/locale > #LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > Unexpected..I thought it would be empty ? For whatever reason the locales package postinst script simply comments out the lines it manages there. I d

Re: locale problems

2015-03-14 Thread Frank
On 03/14/2015 07:21 PM, Frank wrote: On 03/14/2015 07:02 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank wrote: Is this what should be in /etc/default/locale ?? Seems strange. Not strange. Unfamiliar maybe. This file replaced the same use of it in the /etc/environment file. And there have been other attem

Re: locale problems

2015-03-14 Thread Frank
On 03/14/2015 06:55 PM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Frank (debianl...@videotron.ca): On 03/14/2015 04:03 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank wrote: The past few days I've been getting mail from anacron about errors like this: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC

Re: locale problems

2015-03-14 Thread Frank
On 03/14/2015 07:02 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank wrote: Is this what should be in /etc/default/locale ?? Seems strange. Not strange. Unfamiliar maybe. This file replaced the same use of it in the /etc/environment file. And there have been other attempts as well. I expect it will go away

Re: locale problems

2015-03-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank wrote: > Sorry sent this to Bob instead of the list. Getting old :) We are all getting old. And at the same rate too! :-) > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Somewhere along the way you have set the default system locale to one > >that doesn't exist. What is the value stored here: > > > > cat /etc/d

Re: locale problems

2015-03-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Frank (debianl...@videotron.ca): > On 03/14/2015 04:03 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >Frank wrote: > >>The past few days I've been getting mail from anacron > >>about errors like this: > >> > >>/etc/cron.daily/man-db: > >>/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Re: locale problems

2015-03-14 Thread Frank
Sorry sent this to Bob instead of the list. Getting old :) On 03/14/2015 04:03 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank wrote: The past few days I've been getting mail from anacron about errors like this: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Re: locale problems

2015-03-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank wrote: > The past few days I've been getting mail from anacron > about errors like this: > > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Somewhere along the way you have set the default system locale to one that doesn't exist. What i

locale problems

2015-03-14 Thread Frank
The past few days I've been getting mail from anacron about errors like this: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct This is the man-db script: #!/bin/sh # # man-db cron daily set -e iosched_idle= # Don't try to change I/O prio

Re: locale problems

2008-04-22 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
s. keeling wrote the following on 04/21/2008 08:29 PM: Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that you

Re: locale problems

2008-04-21 Thread s. keeling
Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I keep getting these message while running aptitude. > Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't > find anything. > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LANGUAGE = "en

Re: locale problems

2008-04-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en", LC_ALL

locale problems

2008-04-21 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset),

Re: man locale problems.

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Allison
Sam Halliday wrote: Tom Allison wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Reformatting passwd(1), please wait... I can get the man pages, but how do I fix the locale error? I seem to run into this from time to time and ... sometimes are

Re: man locale problems.

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Allison
Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:01:29 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Allan Wind wrote: On 2004-06-28T19:44:38-0400, Tom Allison wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Reformatting passwd(1), please wait...

Re: man locale problems.

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
Tom Allison wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd > man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > Reformatting passwd(1), please wait... > > I can get the man pages, but how do I fix the locale error? > I seem to run into this from time to time and ... sometimes are worse

Re: man locale problems.

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:01:29 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Allan Wind wrote: >> On 2004-06-28T19:44:38-0400, Tom Allison wrote: >> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd >>>man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct >>>Reformatting passwd(1), please wait... >> >>

Re: man locale problems.

2004-06-28 Thread Tom Allison
Allan Wind wrote: On 2004-06-28T19:44:38-0400, Tom Allison wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Reformatting passwd(1), please wait... What do you have them set to? I have "LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG" (in .profile) with the fol

Re: man locale problems.

2004-06-28 Thread Tom Allison
Allan Wind wrote: On 2004-06-28T19:44:38-0400, Tom Allison wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Reformatting passwd(1), please wait... What do you have them set to? I have "LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG" (in .profile) with the fol

Re: man locale problems.

2004-06-28 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-06-28T19:44:38-0400, Tom Allison wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd > man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > Reformatting passwd(1), please wait... What do you have them set to? I have "LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG" (in .profile) with the following in lo

man locale problems.

2004-06-28 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Reformatting passwd(1), please wait... I can get the man pages, but how do I fix the locale error? I seem to run into this from time to time and ... sometimes are worse than others. This one isn't so

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-17 Thread richard lyons
On Monday 17 May 2004 11:44, Bob Proulx wrote: > David W.E. Roberts wrote: > > Bob, > > > > thanks for all the useful info. > > > > I had been led to beleive that if you did a HD install of Knoppix then > > you had a Debian installation which could then be updated to the latest > > version by using

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-17 Thread Bob Proulx
ld not be working for you. But someone else on the list will have an idea about it. Makes me think your TERM veriable is not set right. What term setting are you using? I am assuming you have 'ncurses-term' installed to get the terminfo database /usr/share/terminfo/* installed. >

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-16 Thread Bob Proulx
David W.E. Roberts wrote: > I have just done a hard disc install of Knoppix 3.3 which gives me Debian > 2.4.24-xfs. Well, actually no. It does not give you a Debian 2.4.24-xfs kernel. It gives you a Knoppix 2.4.24-xfs kernel. Knoppix is a fork of Debian that uses the same packaging system and th

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:41:22PM +0100, David W.E. Roberts wrote: > > From browsing man pages I think it should be 'en_uk' or 'en_UK'; > > 'UK' is the Ukraine in locales; you want 'en_GB'. > > > My i18n configuration file contains: > > > > :/etc/sysconfig# cat i18n > > /

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:41:22PM +0100, David W.E. Roberts wrote: > From browsing man pages I think it should be 'en_uk' or 'en_UK'; 'UK' is the Ukraine in locales; you want 'en_GB'. > My i18n configuration file contains: > > :/etc/sysconfig# cat i18n /etc/sysconfig doesn't sound very Debiani

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread richard lyons
On Saturday 15 May 2004 11:31, David W.E. Roberts wrote: > Hi, > > I have just done a hard disc install of Knoppix 3.3 which gives me Debian > 2.4.24-xfs. [...] > Second problem - I am stuck with a US keyboard layout and a UK keyboard. > > I am trying to change the default 'locale' settings in /etc

Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread David W.E. Roberts
Hi, I have just done a hard disc install of Knoppix 3.3 which gives me Debian 2.4.24-xfs. I am having problems with my graphics card (Matrox MGA Millenium) and so cannot run a GUI on the box itself. This means that I miss out on all the graphical configuration tools which come with the KDE deskt

Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread David W.E. Roberts
Hi, I have just done a hard disc install of Knoppix 3.3 which gives me Debian 2.4.24-xfs. I am having problems with my graphics card (Matrox MGA Millenium) and so cannot run a GUI on the box itself. This means that I miss out on all the graphical configuration tools which come with the KDE deskt

Re: Locale problems on 2.6.2 bootup

2004-02-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 01:09 -0700, s. keeling wrote: > If you didn't do it, it's probably coming from /etc/profile Or /etc/environment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locale problems on 2.6.2 bootup

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Robert F Merrill: > David Baron wrote: > > >Get error from "locale": Unable to set no such directory. > >Three items: LC_TYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL. > > > >Had not heard of these previously. LANG is the only locale-keyword set in > >env. All the others in shown in the "man" for

Re: Locale problems on 2.6.2 bootup

2004-02-28 Thread Robert F Merrill
David Baron wrote: Get error from "locale": Unable to set no such directory. Three items: LC_TYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL. Had not heard of these previously. LANG is the only locale-keyword set in env. All the others in shown in the "man" for locale are not set. The above are not cited. Note

Locale problems on 2.6.2 bootup

2004-02-28 Thread David Baron
Get error from "locale": Unable to set no such directory. Three items: LC_TYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL. Had not heard of these previously. LANG is the only locale-keyword set in env. All the others in shown in the "man" for locale are not set. The above are not cited. Note that KDE has its ow

Re: Env-locale problems

2004-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:53:23AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:58:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:54:29PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > > > Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. > > > > > > They say make

Re: Env-locale problems

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:58:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:54:29PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > > Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. > > > > They say make sure your environment has (and the kernel supports): > > LANG=en_ENu

Re: Env-locale problems

2004-01-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:54:29PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. ... > the kernel does not support en_us. Like Colin said, it has nothing to do with Kernel. It is one of glibc thing. locales GNU C Library: National L

Re: Env-locale problems

2004-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:54:29PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. > > They say make sure your environment has (and the kernel supports): > LANG=en_ENus > LC not set > LANGUAGE=en_us en_US, not either en_ENus or en_us. Als

Env-locale problems

2004-01-04 Thread David Baron
Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. They say make sure your environment has (and the kernel supports): LANG=en_ENus LC not set LANGUAGE=en_us (Yes, the US rules the world!) I may have my arguments with the parenthetical alleged fact but it is a fact th

Re: apt-get reports locale problems?

2002-03-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 26 Mar 2002, jennyw wrote: > When I use apt-get, I get messages like: > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "", > LANG = "english" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warn

Re: apt-get reports locale problems?

2002-03-26 Thread Simon Hepburn
jennyw wrote: > When I use apt-get, I get messages like: > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "", > LANG = "english" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back

apt-get reports locale problems?

2002-03-26 Thread jennyw
When I use apt-get, I get messages like: perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "", LANG = "english" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (

how to report bugs (was: Re: Locale problems)

2002-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.12.2002 +0100]: > i wasn't exactly installing woody, but i may as well have been -- i > was installing spamassassin, which is only available >=woody, so i > also got 125 packages that needed to be upgraded. i have absolutely > no experience i

Re: Locale problems

2002-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 January 2002 01:02 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:49:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] insinuated: > > I'm afraid that I missed the previous thread, but I did have a > > similar problem when I tried to clean install Woody

Re: Locale problems

2002-01-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:49:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] insinuated: > I'm afraid that I missed the previous thread, but I did have a > similar problem when I tried to clean install Woody. Was your issue > also during an install? > > If it was, it would seem that we have a bug. The question is: w

Locale problems

2002-01-10 Thread Nori Heikkinen
[broken off from previous thread, because it's really a seperate one now:] on Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:37:23AM +0100, Mark Lamers insinuated: > Op wo 09-01-2002, om 02:39 schreef Nori Heikkinen: > > > and again i run up against unset locales: > > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: w

Re: locale problems -- LANG=en_US and iso-8859-1 fsckups

2001-01-20 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:17:27AM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > This is driving me nuts. > > > > My current setting of LANG=en_US fails on the last three points. >^ > > perl: warning: Setting

Re: locale problems -- LANG=en_US and iso-8859-1 fsckups

2001-01-20 Thread Chris Gray
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > This is driving me nuts. > > My current setting of LANG=en_US fails on the last three points. ^ > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LAN

Re: locale problems -- LANG=en_US and iso-8859-1 fsckups

2001-01-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 20 Jan 2001 02:10:29 -0800, wrote: > This is driving me nuts. > > Objective: Specify a locale value which: > > - Renders standard shell output properly. > - Supports international (iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) charactersets. > - Is supported by common text-mode utilities such as vim, mutt,

Re: locale problems -- LANG=en_US and iso-8859-1 fsckups

2001-01-20 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:10:29AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Objective: Specify a locale value which: > > - Renders standard shell output properly. > - Supports international (iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) charactersets. > - Is supported by common text-mode utilities such as vim, mutt,

locale problems -- LANG=en_US and iso-8859-1 fsckups

2001-01-20 Thread kmself
This is driving me nuts. Objective: Specify a locale value which: - Renders standard shell output properly. - Supports international (iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) charactersets. - Is supported by common text-mode utilities such as vim, mutt, tin, and w3m. - Doesn't cause Perl to choke.

Re: libslang.so and Set locale problems SOLVED

1999-11-08 Thread Gareth
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Gareth wrote: > When running the post instal scriupts and a few other things I get > the message > -- > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (

libslang.so and Set locale problems

1999-11-05 Thread Gareth
G'day all, When running the post instal scriupts and a few other things I get the message -- perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset),

locale problems

1998-03-16 Thread Behan Webster
Every time I run a perl program, I get the following message: 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: Falling back to the standard loca