<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffdd" text="#330000"> Received from / Ricevuta da: Alexander Smirnov [11/21/07 09:00]: <blockquote cite="mid:4743F3A4.5090706@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">N.F. wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi there, since updating the tzdata package this morning (which failed) I cannot fix the locale vars on my Gutsy. as you can see: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "it_IT", LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "it_IT.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_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory Setting up tzdata (2007i-0ubuntu0.7.10) ... dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: tzdata Anybody experienced the same problem ? Any solution ? thanks Nico </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">i'm not sure, but you can try to recompile the locale >sudo locale-gen it_IT.UTF-8 and then try install tzdata again another workaround is to set locale variable to en_US.utf8 for apt >LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get install --reinstall tzdata </pre> </blockquote> it did not work it seems it's a bug related to an nonexistent time zone: $ DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer sudo dpkg --configure tzdata Setting up tzdata (2007i-0ubuntu0.7.10) ... debconf (developer): frontend started debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is tzdata debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.config configure debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0 debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0 debconf (developer): <-- CAPB backup debconf (developer): --> 0 multiselect escape backup debconf (developer): <-- SET tzdata/Areas debconf (developer): --> 0 value set debconf (developer): <-- SET tzdata/Zones/ debconf (developer): --> 10 tzdata/Zones/ doesn't exist dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: tzdata also found these related pages but no fix is working: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=583024">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=583024</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/125349">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/125349</a> </body> </html>