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iandoug
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 126
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:58 am Post subject: Perl: Setting locale failed [SOLVED]

Hi

This seems to be a common issue with Perl.

I've been using it for years on this box, but after recent updates/and/or/cpan package installations, now get locale errors.

Following advice on the forums, I've *half* fixed it.... when running as root, no problem, only when running as user.

As root:

Code:

gentoo ~ # perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall
(etc)

As user:

Code:

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

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall
(etc)

Contents of /etc/locale.gen

Code:

gentoo ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen
# /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your system
#
# The format of each line:
# <locale> <charmap>
#
# Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and
# where <charmap> is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/.
#
# All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
#
# For the default list of supported combinations, see the file:
# /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
#
# Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be automatically
# rebuilt for you. After updating this file, you can simply run `locale-gen`
# yourself instead of re-emerging glibc.

#en_US ISO-8859-1
#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
#ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
#ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8
#ja_JP EUC-JP
#en_HK ISO-8859-1
#en_PH ISO-8859-1
#de_DE ISO-8859-1
#de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
#es_MX ISO-8859-1
#fa_IR UTF-8
#fr_FR ISO-8859-1
#fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15
#it_IT ISO-8859-1

en_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8
#en_ZA ISO-8859-1
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
#en_GB ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
#en_US ISO-8859-1
af_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8
#af_ZA ISO-8859-1

(aside: the commented out locales at the bottom cause problems in OpenOffice printing)

locale as root:

Code:

gentoo ~ # locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

locale as user:

Code:

~ $ 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_ZA
LC_CTYPE="en_ZA"
LC_NUMERIC="en_ZA"
LC_TIME="en_ZA"
LC_COLLATE="en_ZA"
LC_MONETARY="en_ZA"
LC_MESSAGES="en_ZA"
LC_PAPER="en_ZA"
LC_NAME="en_ZA"
LC_ADDRESS="en_ZA"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_ZA"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_ZA"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_ZA"
LC_ALL=en_ZA

Contents of user's .bashrc

Code:

~ $ cat .bashrc
# /etc/skel/.bashrc:
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/skel/.bashrc,v 1.8 2003/02/28 15:45:35 azarah Exp $

# This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup. This
# file *should generate no output* or it will break the scp and rcp commands.

# colors for ls, etc.
eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
alias d="ls --color"
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
alias ll="ls --color -l"
alias lt="ls --color -l -rt"

# Change the window title of X terminals
case $TERM in
xterm*|rxvt|Eterm|eterm)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
;;
screen)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\033\\"'
;;
esac

# put current working dir in prompt
export PS1="\\w \$ "

##uncomment the following to activate bash-completion:
#[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion
#export LANG="en_ZA"
#export LC_ALL="en_ZA"

Will appreciate any pointers as to why the user is getting a different setup to root. .... think root also used to be en_ZA but I tried setting things to
en_GB in the hope of fixing the problem, not sure exactly where/how I managed to achieve this state.... :-)

Would ideally like to run as en_ZA since that's where I am...

Thanks, Ian
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Last edited by iandoug on Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:01 am; edited 1 time in total

TheAl
Tux's lil' helper

Joined: 22 Jan 2004
Posts: 134

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:51 am Post subject: Re: Perl: Setting locale failed

iandoug wrote:

locale as user:

Code:

Problem should be arround here.
As root, do a

Code:

locale-gen

iandoug
Tux's lil' helper

Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 126
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Perl: Setting locale failed [SOLVED]

TheAl wrote:

Problem should be arround here.
As root, do a

Code:

locale-gen

Thanks, that fixed it. Must have been running locale-gen as user instead of root.

Note: I had to log out of KDE and out of gentoo, before the change 'took'.

Thanks for your help :-)

cheers, Ian
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