locale not supported by Xlib

[Roberto Nunnari]

Ok. Problem solved.

The packet I had to reinstall was libx11-6.

Best regards.


Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>> Hi Matthew.
>>
>>
>> Matthew Kuiken wrote:
>>> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>>>>> Hello everybody.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm evaluating Ubuntu 6.06.1 for installing on our clients
>>>>> (about 35 hosts). Up to now, Ubuntu is in my opinion the best
>>>>> linux distribution I ever tried.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, I hit a problem I cannot seam to be able to solve.
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed the problem first while trying to install Maple 10. The
>>>>> installation program dies with an error 'locale not supported by Xlib'.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I tried to launch gedit, and guess what? Gedit works, but in the
>>>>> shell I find the same message as above (cut and paste follows).
>>>>>
>>>>> I probably broke something while installing other software by
>>>>> hand (oracle, matlab, eagle, etc..).
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to reinstall some locales, to change the language,
>>>>> reinstall xorg, but without success.. the messages are still there.
>>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> I can only think of two things, and I'm not certain either will do 
>>> anything for you.
>>>
>>> First is to ask how you reconfigured the locales.  If you used 
>>> locale-gen, then I don't have any other knowledge there.
>> No. I didn't use locale-gen.. I just went to
>> System -> Administration -> Language support
>> and changed the default language.
>> In the upper panel I see that the support tick is
>> checked only for english and italian languages
>> In the dropdown menu in the lower panel I chose
>> English (Australia), which was the default after
>> installing ubuntu. Before I had italian (Switzerland)
>>
>>> Second is that if you have re-installed all of those things, and still 
>>> are seeing the error, it might be a setting in your user configuration 
>>> files.  I would try either backing up your config files, and removing 
>>> them all, or creating a new user to see if the problem exists on a new 
>>> account.
>> I'll try to create a new account and do some testing with it.
>>
>> Thank you for the hints. I'll let you know the results.
> 
> No luck. I created a new user and logged in with it, but
> the problem is still there.
> 
> so.. it's not a user configuration problem, but a
> global configuration problem..
> 
> Any more hints?
> 
> What are the packages I should reinstall?
> What are the ways to reconfigure xlib?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
>>> This is the extent of my knowledge on this subject, so if these don't 
>>> work, I hope that someone who knows more can chime in.
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> 


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