Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP
>   
>> I'm not sure if the -N feature will catch those changes or not.  It may
>> even depend on the version of portage you are using too.  The newer
>> versions of portage has a lot of added features but even it may not
>> catch those.  You may try emerge -vNDp world and see if it sees which
>> ones needs to be emerged for them to take effect.  That may cure the
>> other problems as well.
>>     
>
> Tried it by hand - just rebuilding k3b. Didn't solve it.
>
> I'm most interested right now in these missing file/directory
> messages. What file or directory might it be looking for?
>
> lightning ~ # 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
> lightning ~ #
>
> I tried modifying /etc/env.d/02locale and got a change, but only after
> restarting X. (Or so I think. I'm getting confused at this point...) I
> Added LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE. The LC_COLLATE message went away. The
> LC_CTYPE message is unchanged.
>
> lightning ~ # cat /etc/env.d/02locale
> LANG=en_US
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
> lightning ~ # 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
> C
> POSIX
> lightning ~ #
>
>
> I think I may well have some misspelling somewhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>   

I think glibc is the one that locale belongs to, maybe try re-emerging
it and see if that helps.  Also make sure you have ran etc-update or
whatever you use to manage config updates too.

I'm pasting my emerge --info here just in case it may help.

root@smoker / # emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc17 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2,
glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname:
Linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r8-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2500+-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:45:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
/etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="buildsyspkg ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch
preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch"
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=600"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
USE="3dnow X acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount berkdb
bluetooth bzip2 cairo cddb cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus
dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fdftk fortran
gdbm gif gimp gkrellm gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hbci iconv ipv6
isdnlog java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde kdeprefix ldap
libnotify libwww logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap
ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl openmp pam
parport pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime
readline realmedia reflection sdl seamonkey session spell spl sqlite sse
ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd tiff tk truetype
unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wmp x86 xml xorg xprint xv yahoo
zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym
copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa
lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm
softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux"
LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

root@smoker / #

I did remove some unneeded lines for the mirrors.  Maybe you will notice
something or some guru will come along that has seen this before. 

Dale

:-)  :-)