Re: Locale won't set

Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:10 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > I believe I'm getting closer. > > > > I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install > > any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its > > c

Re: Locale won't set

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:10 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I believe I'm getting closer. > > I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install > any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its > calling locales? Did you already try to reconfigure the

Re: Locale won't set

I believe I'm getting closer. I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its calling locales? Mathias' suggestion that I run strace on the locale command did lead me to stumble on a likely culprit: $ st

Re: Locale won't set

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:07:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm runing debian etch, and things worked until recently when I tried > > to reconfigure locales. Somehow I found myself in a position where I > > can't reconfigure locales, and snooping online suggest

Re: Locale won't set

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haines Brown wrote: > I'm runing debian etch, and things worked until recently when I tried > to reconfigure locales. Somehow I found myself in a position where I > can't reconfigure locales, and snooping online suggests there's no > simple solution.

Re: Locale won't set

Hi Haines. Haines Brown, 31.08.2007 18:49: > There seems to be no problem with my system's supporting en_US: > > $ locale -a > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot se