when I :locale

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 set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
----------------------------------------
when I :: apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
hal: Depends: udev (>= 0.063) but 0.056-2 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

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apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
udev
The following packages will be upgraded:
udev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 102 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/304kB of archives.
After unpacking 246kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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 set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat is locked by another process
debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat is locked by another process
(Reading database ... 100461 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace udev 0.056-2 (using .../archives/udev_0.065-1_i386.deb) ...udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.065-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.065-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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when I::dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up debconf (1.4.56) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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 set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat is locked by another process
debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of console-common:
console-common depends on debconf (>= 0.5); however:
Package debconf is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales:
locales depends on debconf (>= 0.2.26); however:
Package debconf is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal:
hal depends on udev (>= 0.063); however:
Version of udev on system is 0.056-2.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up iptables (1.3.3-1) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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 set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat is locked by another process
debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error processing iptables (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
debconf
console-common
locales
hal
iptables

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thx

please use a suitable title next time you start a thread, thanks.

You seem to have many packages (102) that haven't been upgraded. Have you tried "apt-get dist-upgrade"?