Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with locale-gen

[Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

On 2020.10.28 14:57, Toldi Balázs wrote:
> Hi,
> I did a fresh install a cuple of days ago. Everything worked fine  
> unitl I
> realised that my locale files are incorrect.
> 
> When I run locale-gen, I get this message:
> locale-gen
>  * Generating 4 locales (this might take a while) with 8 jobs
>  * Bad entry in locale.gen: 'UTF-8 '; skipping
It may be irrelevant, but see if removing that trailing space makes a  
difference

>  *  (4/4) Generating hu_HU.UTF-8 ...
> failed to set locale!
> [error] character map file `C.UTF-8' not found: No such file or  
> directory
> failed to set locale!
> [error] cannot open locale definition file `UTF-8': No such file or  
> directory
> [ !! ]
>  *  (1/4) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ...
> [ ok ]
>  *  (3/4) Generating hu_HU.ISO-8859-1 ...
> failed to set locale!
> [error] character map file `hu_HU.UTF-8' not found: No such file or  
> directory
> failed to set locale!
> [error] no output file produced because errors were issued
> [ !! ]
>  *  (2/4) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ...
> [ ok ]
>  * Generation complete
>  * Adding locales to archive ...
> incomplete set of locale files in "//usr/lib64/locale/UTF-8"
> incomplete set of locale files in "//usr/lib64/locale/hu_HU.iso88591"
> [ !! ]
> 
> 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
> en_US
> en_US.iso88591
> 
> The contents of my /etc/locale.gen:
> grep -v # /etc/locale.gen
> hu_HU.UTF-8 UTF-8
> hu_HU.ISO-8859-1
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> 
> Did I miss something?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Balázs
Since all the locale related files belong to glibc, have you tried  
reinstalling that package?