Fixing “No such file or directory” locale errors
Tags: Debian, linux, locale, locales, ubuntu
While working on a new ubuntu karmic system I ran across the following locale error when attempting to perform a dist-upgrade. I was able to reproduce it by running ‘dpkg-reconfigure locales’ thinking that this might fix the error, sadly it did not.
Here’s the error I was seeing:
root@harrowdown:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). 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 |
If you boil the error message down a bit the problem becomes a bit more clear. It’s trying to say that the “en_US” locale could not be found:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
LANG = "en_US" |
To install the missing “en_US” locale run ‘locale-gen en_US’ which should yeild the following output.
root@harrowdown:~# locale-gen en_US Generating locales... en_US.ISO-8859-1... done Generation complete. |
And as you can see the errors are no longer printed when I call dpkg-reconfigure (or anything else for that matter).
root@harrowdown:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales Generating locales... en_AG.UTF-8... done en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NG.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.ISO-8859-1... up-to-date en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done Generation complete. |
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