[lxc-users] [LXC] locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

[Eric Keller]

Hi everyone,

I am currently using LXC (debian wheezy) container on my Ubuntu 12.04 64
bit distribution.

setting up the container, goes fine but the locale are not working
accordingly.

$ 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
LANGUAGE=en_US:
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=

I did apply the usual tricks (https://wiki.debian.org/Locale) to setup the
locale in vain. The locale command continue to throw me the same errors!

the update-locale also behave in a strange way:
sudo /usr/sbin/update-locale
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US:",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "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").
*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8

as does the dpkg-reconfigure locales:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US:",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "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
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8...cannot change mode of new locale archive: No such file or
directory
 done
Generation complete.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US:",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LANG = "C"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

has someone a hint where I could investigate

N.B.: /etc/default/locale /etc/locale.gen and /etc/profile are set
according to the debian wiki page

here are the deailed setup steps executed in the container as root:

apt-get purge locales-all
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive locales
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/default/locale
/usr/sbin/locale-gen
echo ": ${LANG:=en_US.UTF-8}; export LANG" > /etc/profile.d/language

Regards
-- 
Eric Keller
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