This problem occured to me on the old system, I believe after I recompiled glibc with some unsafe flags (erandom and omitfp). When I start Gimp, it says: GLib: Cannot convert message: Cannot convert fallback '?' to codeset 'ISO-8859-15' Several programs throw glib errors (I don't have specifics here, sorry) vim gives plentiful or "no previous regular expression" errors. So I installed the system from scratch. Steps: 1. Boot up the livecd 2005.1-r1 2. Partition the disk 3. untar stage3 and portage tarballs 4. cp old system conf files to /etc and the kernel .config, namely make.conf, locales.build, localtime, portage/package.* and some files to conf.d and env.d 5. chroot to the new system 6. quickpkg glibc 7. emerge gcc ; gcc-config 6 # switching to new gcc 8. emerge glibc -va [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 [2.3.4.20041102-r1] -build -erandom -glibc-compat20 -glibc-omitfp -hardened -linuxthreads-tls (-multilib) +nls -nptl -nptlonly -pic -profile (-selinux) +userlocales* 0 kB 9. emerge vim 10. vim #vim then throws a number of errors 11. emerge =glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 -k # installing the old binary glibc 12. vim #vim works Probably several other packages also give errors. The only flag I used for new glibc is the +userlocales. Here's my /etc/locales.build: en_GB/ISO-8859-1 en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 fi_FI/ISO-8859-1 fi_FI@euro/ISO-8859-15 fi_FI.UTF-8/UTF-8 I also compiled the kernel with the necessary codepages and rebooted, the problem persists. Also the livecd kernel probably has all of these. My system does not use unicode. I also tried to compile the new glibc with the gcc that comes on the livecd. Same problem. Previously I've been able to use glibc-2.3.5-r2 without problems with these safe flags, and also on several other computers. Why not on this one, I can't tell. That's why I'm filing this bug report. The only open loop on this system is my package.use and package.keywords, but I don't use any unstable system packages. Everything else is just the livecd stuff. I also use safe CFLAGS like you can see below.
Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 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: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/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="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo" LINGUAS="fi en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/mnt/quickpkg" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/gentoo-de /usr/local/portage/mikael" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa arts asm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cdr crypt css cups curl directfb divx4linux dts dvb dvd dvdr emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal idn imagemagick imlib imlib2 jack jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt readline sdl slang slp spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l v4l2 vdr vidix vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_fi linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Reopen with output of 'locale' and 'locale -a'
locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro LC_NUMERIC=fi_FI@euro LC_TIME=fi_FI@euro LC_COLLATE=fi_FI@euro LC_MONETARY=fi_FI@euro LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER=fi_FI@euro LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= locale -a aa_DJ aa_ER aa_ER@saaho aa_ET af_ZA am_ET an_ES ar_AE ar_AE.utf8 ar_BH ar_BH.utf8 ar_DZ ar_DZ.utf8 ar_EG ar_EG.utf8 ar_IN ar_IQ ar_IQ.utf8 ar_JO ar_JO.utf8 ar_KW ar_KW.utf8 ar_LB ar_LB.utf8 ar_LY ar_LY.utf8 ar_MA ar_MA.utf8 ar_OM ar_OM.utf8 ar_QA ar_QA.utf8 ar_SA ar_SA.utf8 ar_SD ar_SD.utf8 ar_SY ar_SY.utf8 ar_TN ar_TN.utf8 ar_YE ar_YE.utf8 az_AZ.utf8 be_BY be_BY.utf8 bg_BG bg_BG.utf8 bn_BD bn_IN br_FR br_FR@euro bs_BA byn_ER C ca_ES ca_ES@euro ca_ES.utf8 cs_CZ cs_CZ.utf8 cy_GB cy_GB.utf8 da_DK da_DK.iso885915 da_DK.utf8 de_AT de_AT@euro de_AT.utf8 de_BE de_BE@euro de_BE.utf8 de_CH de_CH.utf8 de_DE de_DE@euro de_DE.utf8 de_LU de_LU@euro de_LU.utf8 el_GR el_GR.utf8 en_AU en_AU.utf8 en_BW en_BW.utf8 en_CA en_CA.utf8 en_DK en_DK.utf8 en_GB en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 en_HK en_HK.utf8 en_IE en_IE@euro en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_NZ en_NZ.utf8 en_PH en_PH.utf8 en_SG en_SG.utf8 en_US en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 en_ZA en_ZA.utf8 en_ZW en_ZW.utf8 es_AR es_AR.utf8 es_BO es_BO.utf8 es_CL es_CL.utf8 es_CO es_CO.utf8 es_CR es_CR.utf8 es_DO es_DO.utf8 es_EC es_EC.utf8 es_ES es_ES@euro es_ES.utf8 es_GT es_GT.utf8 es_HN es_HN.utf8 es_MX es_MX.utf8 es_NI es_NI.utf8 es_PA es_PA.utf8 es_PE es_PE.utf8 es_PR es_PR.utf8 es_PY es_PY.utf8 es_SV es_SV.utf8 es_US es_US.utf8 es_UY es_UY.utf8 es_VE es_VE.utf8 et_EE et_EE.iso885915 et_EE.utf8 eu_ES eu_ES@euro eu_ES.utf8 fa_IR fi_FI fi_FI@euro fi_FI.utf8 fo_FO fo_FO.utf8 fr_BE fr_BE@euro fr_BE.utf8 fr_CA fr_CA.utf8 fr_CH fr_CH.utf8 fr_FR fr_FR@euro fr_FR.utf8 fr_LU fr_LU@euro fr_LU.utf8 ga_IE ga_IE@euro ga_IE.utf8 gd_GB gez_ER gez_ER@abegede gez_ET gez_ET@abegede gl_ES gl_ES@euro gl_ES.utf8 gu_IN gv_GB gv_GB.utf8 he_IL he_IL.utf8 hi_IN hr_HR hr_HR.utf8 hu_HU hu_HU.utf8 id_ID id_ID.utf8 is_IS is_IS.utf8 it_CH it_CH.utf8 it_IT it_IT@euro it_IT.utf8 iw_IL iw_IL.utf8 ja_JP.eucjp ja_JP.utf8 ka_GE kk_KZ kl_GL kl_GL.utf8 kn_IN ko_KR.euckr ko_KR.utf8 kw_GB kw_GB.utf8 lg_UG lo_LA lt_LT lt_LT.utf8 lv_LV lv_LV.utf8 mi_NZ mk_MK mk_MK.utf8 ml_IN mn_MN mr_IN ms_MY ms_MY.utf8 mt_MT mt_MT.utf8 nb_NO nb_NO.utf8 ne_NP nl_BE nl_BE@euro nl_BE.utf8 nl_NL nl_NL@euro nl_NL.utf8 nn_NO nn_NO.utf8 no_NO no_NO.utf8 oc_FR om_ET om_KE pa_IN pl_PL pl_PL.utf8 POSIX pt_BR pt_BR.utf8 pt_PT pt_PT@euro pt_PT.utf8 ro_RO ro_RO.utf8 ru_RU ru_RU.koi8r ru_RU.utf8 ru_UA ru_UA.utf8 se_NO sid_ET sk_SK sk_SK.utf8 sl_SI sl_SI.utf8 so_DJ so_ET so_KE so_SO sq_AL sq_AL.utf8 st_ZA st_ZA.utf8 sv_FI sv_FI@euro sv_FI.utf8 sv_SE sv_SE.iso885915 sv_SE.utf8 ta_IN te_IN tg_TJ th_TH th_TH.utf8 ti_ER ti_ET tig_ER tl_PH tr_TR tr_TR.utf8 tt_RU.utf8 uk_UA uk_UA.utf8 ur_PK uz_UZ uz_UZ@cyrillic vi_VN vi_VN.tcvn wa_BE wa_BE@euro wa_BE.utf8 xh_ZA xh_ZA.utf8 yi_US zh_CN zh_CN.gbk zh_CN.gb18030 zh_CN.utf8 zh_HK zh_HK.utf8 zh_SG zh_SG.gbk zh_TW zh_TW.euctw zh_TW.utf8 zu_ZA zu_ZA.utf8
The _above_ locales are for the *working* glibc, that came on the livecd. I recompiler the *same* version with +userlocales, it has the same problem than the newer one. Here are the locales for the *broken* glibc. locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro LC_NUMERIC=fi_FI@euro LC_TIME=fi_FI@euro LC_COLLATE=fi_FI@euro LC_MONETARY=fi_FI@euro LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER=fi_FI@euro LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= locale -a C en_GB en_GB.utf8 en_US en_US.utf8 fi_FI fi_FI@euro fi_FI.utf8 POSIX
I've recompiled glibc with USE="-userlocales" CFLAGS="" and still the same problem persists. Gcc-3.4.4-r1. Could this a bug in glibc, gcc, glib, or somewhere else? For reference, my essential system packages: [I] dev-libs/glib (1.2.10-r5 2.8.4): The GLib library of C routines [I] sys-libs/glibc (2.3.4.20041102-r1): GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library [I] sys-devel/gcc (3.3.5.20050130-r1 3.4.4-r1): The GNU Compiler Collection. [I] sys-devel/libtool (1.5.22): A shared library tool for developers [I] sys-devel/make (3.80-r1): Standard tool to compile source trees [I] sys-devel/binutils (2.16.1): Tools necessary to build programs [I] sys-devel/automake (1.4_p6 1.5 1.6.3 1.7.9-r1 1.8.5-r3 1.9.5): Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am [I] sys-libs/lib-compat (1.4): Compatibility C++ and libc5 and libc6 libraries for programs new and old
This is what vim reports: Error detected while processing /etc/vim/vimrc: line 2: E35: No previous regular expression line 4: E35: No previous regular expression line 5: E35: No previous regular expression ..... gimp: Lib: Cannot convert message: Cannot convert fallback '?' to codeset 'ISO-8859-15' (gimp:7863): LibGimpBase-CRITICAL **: gimp_datafiles_read_directories: assertion `path_str != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): LibGimpBase-CRITICAL **: gimp_datafiles_read_directories: assertion `path_str != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): LibGimpBase-CRITICAL **: gimp_datafiles_read_directories: assertion `path_str != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): LibGimpBase-CRITICAL **: gimp_datafiles_read_directories: assertion `path_str != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): LibGimpBase-CRITICAL **: gimp_datafiles_read_directories: assertion `path_str != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): LibGimpBase-CRITICAL **: gimp_datafiles_read_directories: assertion `path_str != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): Gimp-Text-CRITICAL **: gimp_fonts_add_directories: assertion `path_str != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): LibGimpModule-CRITICAL **: gimp_module_db_load: assertion `module_path != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): LibGimpBase-CRITICAL **: gimp_datafiles_read_directories: assertion `path_str != NULL' failed (gimp:7863): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_path_is_absolute: assertion `file_name != NULL' failed gqview: GQview 2.1.1, This is a beta release. Unable to convert filename to locale from UTF-8: And so on... many applications do not function properly, but after I switch back to the binary glibc that came on the livecd, they work again.
glibc-2.3.6-r4+ should have this resolved
