1 I set up gentoo 2005.1 2 I export LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R (this is common used method for localisation) 3 #locale return error. I used strace to trace the error. It is in files /usr/ lib/locale/ru_RU.koi8r 4 SOLVE: TAKE DIR /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU.koi8r FROM 'GENTOO-2005.0'! 2developers: what has happened to these files? BTW: localisation ru_RU (not ru_RU.KOI8-R) works good, but NONE of supplied cyrillic fonts shows correct text Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up gentoo-2005.1 2. #export LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R 3. #locale (returns some error strings, and correct strings. BUT! see p.4) 4. #date (returns date in english. All applications are still in english) Actual Results: Locale failed to change from english to russian (problem is in files /usr/lib/ locale/ru_RU.koi8r/*. Same files taken from gentoo-2005.0 work correctly) Expected Results: It should show text in russian localisation. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2. 6.13-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/ share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb / usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.KOI8-R" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 7zip X aalib alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mad mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vhosts vorbis xml2 xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
i dont really follow your steps when do you export LANG and run locale ? after you chroot into the stage dir ? what stage did you use ? what commands did you run before testing `locale` ?
