locale error messages

john50 · 11-29-2012, 08:25 AM

Hi,

I have a Debian server which I've just upgraded from lenny to squeeze using apt-get. During the upgrade, I got the following error lots of times:

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manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Afterwards, proftp wouldn't start. I did various things (including dpkg-reconfigure locales, local-gen) which eventually got it to start, but I am still getting error messages about locales.

When I log in via ssh I get:

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-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

When I run apache2ctl status I get:

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perl: warning: Setting locale failed. 
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: 
    LANGUAGE = (unset), 
    LC_ALL = "en_GB.utf8", 
    LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8" 
    are supported and installed on your system. 
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). 
                                   Forbidden

The /etc/environment file contains:

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LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8"

How do I fix this?

druuna · 11-29-2012, 09:08 AM

I do believe that /etc/environment is for Debian versions that pre-date Squeeze.

Try removing the locale entries from /etc/environment and have a look at /etc/default/locale

Depending of the language choice it should look something like this:

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# File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

You can add specific entries to it which are recognized system-wide. Example:

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# File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MEASUREMENT="nl_NL.utf8"
LC_PAPER="nl_NL.utf8"
LC_TIME="nl_NL.utf8"

Did a search and came up with this: Debian locale

john50 · 11-29-2012, 11:23 AM

Hi druuna.

Thanks for your help. I cleared out my /etc/environment and had a read through that link. The commands suggested seemed to throw various errors up but after mucking around with the files mentioned on that Wiki page, I managed to get rid of the errors I was getting.