I'm getting a crash of emerge when using verbose output. emerge -av1 portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.3/emerge", line 50, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 1057, in emerge_main return run_action(emerge_config) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 4082, in run_action emerge_config.args, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 352, in action_build favorites=favorites) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 7512, in display return display(self, mylist, favorites, verbosity) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/_emerge/resolver/output.py", line 853, in __call__ self.verbose_size(pkg, None, pkg_info) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/_emerge/resolver/output.py", line 334, in verbose_size self.verboseadd += localized_size(mysize) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/portage/localization.py", line 41, in localized_size formatted_num = locale.format('%d', num_kib, grouping=True) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/locale.py", line 195, in format return _format(percent, value, grouping, monetary, *additional) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/locale.py", line 216, in _format formatted, seps = _group(formatted, monetary=monetary) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/locale.py", line 140, in _group conv = localeconv() File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/locale.py", line 111, in localeconv d = _localeconv() UnicodeDecodeError: 'locale' codec can't decode byte 0xa4 in position 0: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character running with env LC_ALL=C works as expected. similar to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519124 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. call emerge with parameter "-v" Actual Results: abort with UnicodeDecodeError: 'locale' codec can't decode byte 0xa4 in position 0: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character Expected Results: regular output and start of emerge. locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=de_DE@euro LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=de_DE@euro LC_MONETARY=de_DE@euro LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" LC_NAME=de_DE@euro LC_ADDRESS=de_DE@euro LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE@euro LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE@euro LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US LC_ALL= remerged portage and python! no change. emerge --info Portage 2.2.14_rc1 (python 3.3.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.16.0-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.16.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8175300 total, 67972 free KiB Swap: 9437180 total, 9436956 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.23.2 p1.0) 2.23.2 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.9 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p50 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.7, 3.3.5-r1 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.4, 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo LocalOverlay kde Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA googleearth AdobeFlash-10.1 DOOM3" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -w" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -w" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=4 --load-average=7.0 --keep-going" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" 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That pretty much looks like it's caused by mixing UTF-8 and ISO-8859-15 locale settings. Python3 assumes unicode and 'a4' is ISO-8859 for '¤'. I don't think there's any software that works *better* in a mixed-encoding locale that it would in a pure UTF-8 environment, but I could be wrong. Unless there's a very good reason to stick with the mixed-encoding locale I'd suggest replacing all instances of de_DE@euro in /etc/env.d/02locales with de_DE.UTF-8 (or de_DE.utf8, if that's how it's named in your /etc/locale.gen) and trying again in a new session.
Changing as suggested worked and resolved the issue. Thanks for the hint. Now i just have to check why LC_NUMERIC can't be updated (env-update && source /etc/profile) but that's off topic - marking as resolved. bash: warning: setlocale: LC_NUMERIC: cannot change locale (de_DE.utf8) Thanks again.
