[Bug 748261] Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed

[Armindo Silva]

It's still a bug because this is happens on every ubuntu (server and desktop) I used on the last couple of years and besides during installation (where I choose English as language, UTF8 for encoding, Portuguese as keyboard layout and Europe/Lisbon for the timezone.
So it is a problem with the ubuntu installer, not a problem caused by a misconfiguration made by the user.

# locale
 locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_ALL=


WORKAROUND:

$ sudo vim  /etc/environment

_ at the end of the file add: LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
_ or your favorite encoding

$ sudo reboot


** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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Title:
  perl: warning: Setting locale failed

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt

  perl: warning: Setting locale failed.    
  perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  	LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
  	LC_ALL = (unset),
  	LC_MESSAGES = "en_US.UTF-8",
  	LANG = "ru_RU.UTF-8"
      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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

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