Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificate - locale problem

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13-Dec-11 16:56, Michael Mol wrote:
>>>
>>> I just tried to update my system but emerging app-misc/ca-certificate
>>> failed with this error:
>>> -------------------
>>>  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 178, in
>>> _unicode_encode
>>>    s = s.encode(encoding, errors)
>>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u011f' in
>>> position 68: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
>>>>>> Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificates-20111025, Log file:
>>>
>>>
>>>  * This package installs one or more file names containing characters
>>> that
>>>  * do not match your current locale settings. The current setting for
>>>  * filesystem encoding is 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'.
>>>
>>>  * For best results, UTF-8 encoding is recommended. See the Gentoo Linux
>>>  * Localization Guide for instructions about how to configure your
>>>  * locale for UTF-8 encoding:
>>>  *
>>>  *      http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
>>> -------------------
>>>
>>> I did not have any /etc/env.d/02locale file, so I created
>>> one with LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" in it, but I still get the same
>>> error. I tried en_US.UTF-8 or en_EN.UTF-8 with the same
>>> results. I really do not understand what ca-certificates
>>> needs to get it installed...
>>
>>
>> Having set up three Gentoo installs in the last month, and I've seen
>> this each time.
>>
>> It's blunt, but a mixture of "emerge -e --keep-going @world",
>> "shutdown -r now" and "emerge --resume --keep-going" commands clears
>> it up.
>
>
> OMG, I have to recompile the whole world to fix it???
> This is definitelly not "small" bug if it costs half day
> of compilation time...    :-(

I've only *ever* seen it on fresh installs. An "emerge -e @world" to
propagate CFLAGS is usually an early step; I like to do it before I
install much more than 'screen' and 'vim'.

Chances are, it's some smaller thing, like getting locale settings in
place before emerging glibc or some fs tools, but I haven't tried
tracking it down more deeply.

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:wq