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

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> Check in your /etc/make.conf file and see if you have !some! of this:
>
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
> LINGUAS="en"
> LANG="en_US"
> LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
> SANE_BACKENDS="hp"
> NUT_DRIVERS="cyberpower"
> ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1"
> CAMERAS="canon"
> LCD_DEVICES=""
> APACHE2_MODULES=""
>
> Keep in mind, your settings may vary from mine but some may need to be
> just like mine.  Also, if you do a emerge -pv <package-name>, it will
> show what options are on and also what is available to use if nothing is
> set.  Not all packages will use those settings so don't be concerned if
> it doesn't show them on those.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>
>
There seems to be something else going on here. I've made the changes
you suggested - they make sense. I've rerun locale-gen. man locale
suggests locale -a as a way to look at what's set up as public. That
command demonstrates the problem pretty clearly I think, and I suspect
your machine doesn't act the same way:

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 ~ # 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
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=
lightning ~ #

I'm wondering if I really do need to add more stuff to my 02locale
environment file. Possibly it got messed up during some update?

lightning ~ # cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG=en_US
lightning ~ #

If anyone (everyone!) has a machine that acts better on the above
commands could you post back the contents of the 02locale file? This
Gentoo page suggests I might want to edit it:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml

so I tried adding the LC_CTYPE=en_US to it but that didn't fix
anything. It says a directory is missing. What directory?

k3b still generates the warning message even after a reboot. I suspect
it won't go away until I find the solution to running the locale
command above.

Thanks,
Mark