Fun with ones and zeros
Ubuntu server locale errors
This is mostly a note to myself... After setting up a minimal Ubuntu server install (in Xen), following these instructions using debootstrap I saw lots of errors like this:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Checking with locale -a would show
C
POSIX
While a full Ubuntu server install (off a CD) would show:
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX
This command seems to have generated the missing locale and made everybody happy.
localedef --no-archive -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
posted: Friday, 31 October 2008 12:17 | tags: linux ubuntu
Comments
#2 Phillip Pearson commented, on November 3, 2008 at 1:47 a.m.:
Excellent. So far I've been fixing this error with 'dpkg-reconfigure locales', but it requires clicking through a few dialogs. Thanks for the one-liner!
#1 rukeba commented, on November 2, 2008 at 9:26 a.m.:
O! Many thanks! it really works.