Dienstag, April 17, 2007

Setting locale failed after update

After updating my debian sid system quite some programs failed to work. One of the broken one was locale. During the setup of the new packages the following error kept occurring:

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

Running dpkg-reconfigure locales gave me not only the same error message but also locales is broken or not fully installed.

One of the dependencies of the new kernel was the glibc. This dependency is for locales now broken, as it requested a exact version of the glibc. This looks like a lot of fun to solve ;-)

[update 20 Apr 2007] glibc settings are changed by the debian team and updating the system solved the problem

[moved from vox]

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