Hoary->Breezy upgrade problems (major)

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 09:20, ARTHUR ALEXION wrote:
> I tried to upgrade from [a perfectly good] Hoary to Breezy via apt-get
> dist-upgrade, and it initially failed.
>
>   Re-running apt-get dist-upgrade with the --fix-missing option resulted in
> finally downloading and installing most of the failed packages, but still
> an error (code 1).
>
>   Now when I run it I get the following errors:
>
>   First apt-get complains:
>
>   perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>   perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>        LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en_US:en"
>        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.

We're seeing the same problems on Kubuntu now that I have seen in Debian Sid, 
and have evidently never been fixed.

Solution:  Manually run the local-gen.

It will generate all the locales for your system

someone may want to clarify and especially correct, but, if you 
edit /etc/locale.gen first you can remark out the locales you do NOT want 
generated when you run this command.

You may want to check this file out before you run the locale-gen command.  

However, that is the problem the locales are not properly generated for the 
newer version of the distro.

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