Cron messages

gabsik · 07-09-2006, 05:19 AM

Cron is sending me tons of mails with this error:

Quote:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "it_IT",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "it_IT@euro"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I have a debian sarge 3.1 and a LAMP system for my website , is the locale only related to joomla CMS? :

Quote:

italian.jos_heximage_album
warning : 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly
italian.jos_menu
warning : 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly
italian.jos_session
warning : 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly
wwwgab.jos_banner
warning : 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly
wwwgab.jos_session
warning : 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly
wwwgab.jos_users
warning : 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly

Improperly closed tables are also reported if clients are accessing
the tables *now*. A list of current connections is below.

+----+------------------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+----+------------------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| 5 | debian-sys-maint | localhost | | Query | 0 | | show processlist |
+----+------------------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
Uptime: 2 Threads: 1 Questions: 271 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 257 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 64 Queries per second avg: 135.500

This the output of locale -a

Quote:

root@www:~# 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 set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX

How do i deal with locales in debian ?
How do i stop this error ?

jonaskoelker · 07-09-2006, 06:36 AM

Code:

$ apt-cache search locale | grep locale
# apt-get install locales

Tinker around a bit with the locale-related packages.

hth.

gabsik · 07-09-2006, 09:12 AM

I tried installing a new locales package:

Quote:

root@www:~# install locales
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3
E: Broken packages

jonaskoelker · 07-09-2006, 02:00 PM

Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348413

gabsik · 07-12-2006, 05:03 AM

I have added a sid repository to my sources.list:

Quote:

root@www:~# install locales
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
base-config
The following NEW packages will be installed:
locales
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
Need to get 3938kB of archives.
After unpacking 7967kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
locales
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://debian.linux-systeme.com sid/main locales 2.3.6-16 [3938kB]
Fetched 3938kB in 53s (74.0kB/s)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "it_IT",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "it_IT@euro"
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
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 60182 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing base-config ...
Selecting previously deselected package locales.
(Reading database ... 60076 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.3.6-16_all.deb) ...
Setting up locales (2.3.6-16) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "it_IT",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "it_IT@euro"
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
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
it_IT.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
Generation complete.

As you see it says 'generation complete' http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348413 doesn't give me a solution

Quote:

So I can fix this by downgrading libc. My point is that this is clearly
a bad, confusing problem, since more than once person has found their
way to this bug report (the vast majority of people inconvenienced by
this bug won't go to the trouble of reporting it). It *is* a bug in
Debian. Debian should be smart enough to figure out how to resolve this
problem automatically.

Let's see if i get still reports on this 'bug' ... cheeers !!!