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

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

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

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

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,