locale errors during apt-get upgrades

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Sabniveesu Shashank
> <shashank16392 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Sabniveesu Shashank
>>> <shashank16392 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, I've been using Ubuntu since 11.10. Why do I get the following
>>>> messages whenever I update my packages? Why doesn't  Ubuntu itself
>>>> set them by default?
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed
>>>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>>>             LANGUAGE = (unset),
>>>>             LC_ALL = (unset)
>>>>             LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
>>>>       are supported and installed on your system.
>>>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>>>
>>> What's the output of "locale" and "locale -a"?
>>
>> Pasted them at http://pastebin.com/pdKvRhgy
>
> I forgot.
>
> What's the output of "cat /etc/environment"?
>
> If you have "LANG=en_IN" in that file, change it to "LANG=en_IN.UTF-8".
>
> (Someone else asked you whether you're setting LANG or LC_* in one of
> the bash startup files?)

Also "cat /etc/default/locale".

"...environment" is used by a pam module and "...locale" by an upstart job.