Kernel fun => dreaded "locale not supported" problem

[David Abrahams]

Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> writes:

> David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm getting a problem I've seen before, and that has been posted about
>> all over the web, but to which I can't find a solution that works.
>>
>> When starting gdm, I get the following:
>>
>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>       LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",
>>       LC_ALL = (unset),
>>       LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>>
>>   are supported and installed on your system
>
> See /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED fpr a list of locales supported by Ubuntu.
> If yours are amoung them run
>  sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
> (or whatever locales you want) to create the locales.
>  locale -a
> lists all locales currently created on your system (not case sensitive)

Thanks, but it's too late; I've already reinstalled.  

Just for my edification: do you think it's likely that 

   sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

could have wroked where

    sudo locale-gen

didn't?  If so, why?

Thanks again,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com