The immediate problem turned out to be a stray file in
/var/lib/locales/supported.d, namely a "typescript" file that got there from
one of my attempts to debug something else. It also turns
out that locale-gen looks at all files in that directory, and its filters don't
catch that a typescript is the wrong thing.
Removing the file, and running "aptitude reinstall lsb" the system still
appears to be miscofigured at least a little. /etc/default/locale contains
"en_US", which is reported as "not found". This has to be my fault too. I
thought the first line of my /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local covered that:
en_US ISO-8859-1
What should it be?
I'm also getting invoke-rc.d: initscript gdm, action "reload" failed.
This may relate to my difficulty getting X up on reboot, but when I run
it manually, the error reported goes back to /etc/default/locale. I
would really like a locale "en_US" to make it similar to the systems at
work.
That said, the reinstall seems to have worked, and it automatically went about
reconfiguring the
other packages that previously failed. So progress is happening.
Bottom line: with a bit of help configuring locales, I may be able to
fix the rest of this myself.
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dapper -> hardy upgrade breaks system
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242703
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