when installing totem, no translation files were installed equery files totem | grep locale returns nothing. i had to generate the totem.mo file by myself and move it into /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES here's my emerge --info output: Portage 2.1_pre5-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~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/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/applications /usr/share/config /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlay/own" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 7zip X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr crypt css cups dbus dga dpms dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dxr3 eds emboss encode esd ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gksu glibc-omitfp glitz gnome gnome2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl imagemagick imlib inotify ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k ldap libg++ libnotify libwww linuxthreads-tls logrotate mad matroska mikmod mmx mng mono motif mp3 mpeg musicbrainz nautilus ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg openexr opengl oss pam pdf pdflib perl pic png ppds print python quicktime readline real samba sdl slang sndfile speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vcd vim-with-x visualization vorbis win32codecs x264 xine xml xml2 xrandr xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_wacom input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
same problem here (with it locale). I'm almost certain that my previous installation (2006-01-07) of totem 1.2.1 installed the locale ghepeu@KazeNoTani po $ genlop totem * media-video/totem [...] Sat Jan 7 00:12:47 2006 >>> media-video/totem-1.2.1 Fri Mar 3 16:27:13 2006 >>> media-video/totem-1.2.1 emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre5-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-ck5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-ck5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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, 1.9.6-r1 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="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -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/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LANG="it_IT@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -s" LINGUAS="it en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dati/wd31gb/portage-tmp/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd eds emboss encode fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick java jce jpeg kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww mad mmx mmxext mng mono mp3 mpeg musepack mysql ncurses nls nntp nptl nsplugin objc ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl sndfile spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 xml xml2 xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_it linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_ati" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS
is this bug because of the LINGUAS env variable?
I think so.
this seems to be fixed on recent versions. Please upgrade