[Fixed] Re: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale

[NoOp]

NoOp wrote:
> While fooling around with installing & uninstalling OpenOffice I made
> the stupid mistake of doing an OOo install from the Edgy (Main)
> repository. Although I've uninstalled that version since then I get the
> following:
> 
> ~$ locale
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> My system is:
> 
> Ubuntu: Dapper 6.061 LTS
> Kernel: 2.6.15-27-386
> GNOME Version: 2.14.3 - Ubuntu (2006-07-31)
> GCC Version: 4.0.3 - i486-linux-gnu
> Xorg Version: 7.0.0
> 
> Any ideas on what I need to uninstall/reinstall to get rid of the
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> error?
> 
> I've done the standard "Google" approach and have tried various
> suggestions from the Ubuntu forums, linux forums etc., but still cannot
> fix the problem. i.e.,
>  dpkg-reconfigure locales
>  uninstall & reinstall localeconf
> etc.
> 
> If I attempt to deinstall locales I get:
> 
>> $ sudo apt-get remove locales
>> Password:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> 
>> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
>> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
>> that package should be filed.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>> 
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   libc6: Depends: locales (>= 2.3.11)
>> E: Broken packages
> 
> The version of locales that I have installed is 2.3.18
> 
> so I'm guessing that the problem is perhaps with the libc6 that the Edgy
> OOo package installed. Unfortunately I can't seem to figure out how to
> revert back to the Dapper libc6. I've tried to reinstall libc6 via
> Synaptics as well as apt-get.
> 
> The problem itself doesn't seem to affect anything that I can tell so
> far, but whenever I do an apt-get install or dpkg install I keep getting
> the perl error warnings.
> 
> 
> 

Fixed the problem by forcing a reinstall of libc6:

# dpkg --force-all -i libc6_2.3.6-0ubuntu20_i386.deb

locale now shows:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8