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

[Eric Keller]

Hi Neil,

thanks for the answer, there is no such package (language-pack-en-base) in
debian repositories :(

Regards,

-- 
Eric Keller


On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 8 Nov 2014 07:54, "Eric Keller" <keller.eric at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> I'm not a Debian user, nor an expert on locales. But to me it looks like
> you haven't installed an English locale, specifically the US one.
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil
>
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