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truc
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 Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject: locale problem (locale-archive file replaced?)[SOLVED] |
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Hello,
====== long story short ======
| running locale-gen creates a file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive with the new available locales, but for a not yet known reason, this file is replaced during | reboot (or when shutting down who knows?).
| I'd like to understand why this file is replaced, by what, and how I can prevent that from happening?
====== /long story short ======
I had to reinstall my system on a new HD (the old one beeing dead..), I have a weird problem with my locales, after every reboot, the only locales available are
| Code: | locale -a
locale -a
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POSIX
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LC_* is not defined anywhere, I just have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/profile.env
to be even more precise, here is what I get after a reboot:
| 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_US.UTF-8
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=
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
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But here is my /etc/locale.gen,
| Code: | grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15
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And, once I run locale-gen, everything is back to normal, but it's just not right!
Any idea?
TIA
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| Do you have a locale file in env.d? |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:31 am Post subject: |
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Wel, I wasn't clear enough, this is what I have:
| Code: | grep -E '(LC_|LANG)' /etc/env.d/*
/etc/env.d/02locale:export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' |
Which result in | Code: | grep -E '(LC_|LANG)' /etc/profile.env
export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' |
This setting fails to load at each boot since I don't have the appropriate locale available (see above the output of locale -a)
Once I run locale-gen, everything is ok, but, I shouldn't not need to do that?!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Add
| Code: | 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"
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to /etc/env.d/02locale
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:07 am Post subject: |
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Well, setting LC_ALL automatically sets LC_*, and settings LANG automatically sets LC_ALL, so I should not need that anyway.
But you're missing my point, setting LANG the way I did work (see above the output of locale after the reboot), but the requested locale is not available (not listed in locale -a, see above).
I have to run locale-gen it order to have it.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:31 am Post subject: |
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| Set LC_* and update env. Just try it. |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| sebaro wrote: | | Set LC_* and update env. Just try it. |
Well, guess what? Didn't work!
just after booting:
| 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_US.UTF-8
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=
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| Code: | 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
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As you can see, en_US.utf8 is not available, and this is actually my problem, running locale-gen fixes it, but I don't know why
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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You are right  .
locale-gen/localedef generates a locale-archive file in /usr/lib/locale
if I remove that file I'm getting the same errors as you
then a locale-gen and all's fine
do you have that file after reboot? |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:19 am Post subject: |
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This is weird!
after running locale-gen,
| Code: | cp /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive{,.old}
md5sum /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive{,.old} ~/locale-archive
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.old
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /root/locale-archive
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Then on next reboot | Code: | md5sum /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive{,.old} ~/locale-archive
d18ca9312eded85c57062f77b039948f /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.old
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /root/locale-archive |
As you can see, /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.old is still there (it get deleted by running locale-gen), this means the file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive has been changed with an different utility than locale-gen!
I've tried to find a file in my / having the same size as the new /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, but nothing.
I'm now trying to see where localedef (used in locale-gen) could have been used when booting.
If you have any idea, please let me know!
Thanks for your help 
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I'm now trying to see where localedef (used in locale-gen) could have been used when booting.
If you have any idea, please let me know! |
I couldn't find anything. I checked conf.d, init.d, rc scripts.
You can try removing all init scripts from default runlevel and run them yourself. Maybe one of them is creating the issue.
Or you can make the locale-archive file read-only. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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I tried setting the file read-only but it didn't work.
The funny thing is that the new locale-archive file is not even the same on every boot:
| Code: | > cat reboot
d18ca9312eded85c57062f77b039948f /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.old
> cat reboot2
61af608a8dc7071a313754c5a5d78f91 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /root/locale-archive
> cat reboot3
a4b2df9c99d5e46372d1c2f8f6b28092 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /root/locale-archive
> cat reboot4
08c777fa18e651d11e8c122f7195f4cc /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
10b67a6fe3150a0f95b8e8ac944e5f52 /root/locale-archive |
Just after the boot, running locale-gen -u throws out an error with localedef
| Code: | * Generating 2 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs
* (1/2) Generating en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 264: 2676 Segmentation fault "${DESTDIR}"usr/bin/localedef ${LOCALEDEF_OPTS} -i "${input}" -f "${charmap}" -A "${ALIAS}" --prefix "${DESTDIR}" "${locale}"
[ !! ]
* (2/2) Generating fr_FR.ISO-8859-15@euro.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 264: 2682 Segmentation fault "${DESTDIR}"usr/bin/localedef ${LOCALEDEF_OPTS} -i "${input}" -f "${charmap}" -A "${ALIAS}" --prefix "${DESTDIR}" "${locale}"
[ !! ]
* Generation complete
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I've just reinstalled glibc. I still have this error when running locale-gen -u after the boot. And, I still have to run locale-gen on every boot.
I notice there were actually several locale-archive modified:
| Code: | ls -l /usr/lib*/locale
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2009-06-21 18:51 /usr/lib32/locale -> /usr/lib64/locale
/usr/lib64/locale:
total 1232
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1330784 2009-06-21 19:37 locale-archive
/usr/lib/locale:
total 1232
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1330784 2009-06-21 19:37 locale-archive
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This is really annoying since wicd won't start if proper locale are not available (other than C or POSIX) 
I keep you informed
EDIT: I found this bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214687 which may be related to my problem => installed gcc-4.4.0 and reinstalled glibc, but still the same, I just don't understand!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:41 am Post subject: |
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Did you install glibc without "glibc-omitfp" flag?
Did you install glibc-2.10 with gcc-4.4.0? |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| sebaro wrote: | Did you install glibc without "glibc-omitfp" flag?
Did you install glibc-2.10 with gcc-4.4.0? |
Oh yes, sorry, glibc-omitftp is disabled for glibc, and I did reinstall this package after having installed gcc-4.4.0
| Code: | * sys-libs/glibc :2.2 [R 2.10.1] <target>
Reasons: sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0:4.4::installed
-debug -gd -glibc-omitfp (-hardened) (multilib) nls -profile (-selinux) -vanilla build_options: -optional_tests |
BUG REPORT: sys-libs/glibc-2.10.1: locale-archive replaced on every boot and...
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| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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wow, the gcc upgrade wasn't actually a really good idea... I could not boot or event chroot into the system after this update, every binary was failing.
Well, since this install was a few days old (stage4 install), I decided I could try reinstalling from scratch... which I did, and... which wasn't apparently enough to fix my problem! I really don't get it.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Since this was starting to *really* annoy me, I modified my initramfs to copy a backup of the locale-archive file juste before everything else:
| Code: | # durty hack
if [ "x$FIXLOCALE" == 'xyes' ]; then
busybox md5sum ${NEWROOT}/locar.bkp ${NEWROOT}/usr/lib*/locale/locale-archive >> ${NEWROOT}/test
for i in 32 64; do
cp -v ${NEWROOT}/locar.bkp ${NEWROOT}/usr/lib${i}/locale/locale-archive
done
fi
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And, I only needed this hack once. This looks like the file was lock by something, lsof /usr/lib*/locale/locale-archive reports mpd and wicd had these files open.
This means that if I just listened to you sebaro:
| Quote: | | You can try removing all init scripts from default runlevel and run them yourself. Maybe one of them is creating the issue. |
I would have probably fixed my problem way earlier! (A script wasn't causing the issue, but the started daemons themselves were -- assuming the lock was really the problem of course..)
Thank you for your support:)
EDIT: The question is: how does the lock would really work?
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