When updated to sys-libs/glibs-2.25-r8 I encountered next error: After reboot I lose selected locale (all program runs with C locale). When I run `eselect locale list` I get ``` /usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory /usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory /usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory Available targets for the LANG variable: [1] C [2] POSIX [3] en_US.utf8 [4] ru_RU.koi8r [5] ru_RU.utf8 * [ ] (free form) ``` After I run `locale-gen` it fixes: ``` Available targets for the LANG variable: [1] C [2] en_US [3] en_US.iso88591 [4] en_US.utf8 [5] ja_JP.eucjp [6] ja_JP.utf8 [7] POSIX [8] ru_RU.cp1251 [9] ru_RU.koi8r [10] ru_RU.utf8 * [ ] (free form) ``` But next reboot breaks it. Content of `/etc/locale.gen`: ``` # /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your system. # See the locale.gen(5) man page for more details. # # The format of each line: # <locale name> <charset> # # Where <locale name> starts with a name as found in /usr/share/i18n/locales/. # It must be unique in the file as it is used as the key to locale variables. # For non-default encodings, the <charset> is typically appended. # # Where <charset> is a charset located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ (sans any # suffix like ".gz"). # # All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored. # # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file: # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED # # Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be automatically # rebuilt for you. After updating this file, you can simply run `locale-gen` # yourself instead of re-emerging glibc. ru_RU.utf8 UTF-8 ru_RU.CP1251 CP1251 ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R #en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.utf8 UTF-8 en_US ISO-8859-1 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP ja_JP.utf8 UTF-8 #ja_JP.SHIFT_JIS SHIFT_JIS #ja_JP EUC-JP #en_HK ISO-8859-1 #en_PH ISO-8859-1 #de_DE ISO-8859-1 #de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15 #es_MX ISO-8859-1 #fa_IR UTF-8 #fr_FR ISO-8859-1 #fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15 #it_IT ISO-8859-1 ```
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Both sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r8 and sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r9 affected.
It's a bit strange you see changes after reboot. I have only vague guesses why reboot is special. Do you have anything unusual in your setup? Like separate /usr/ partition or userspace-assisted boot to deal with /home/ mounts? Some generic things to try (and get the idea where locales fail to populate for you): Can you post output of the following command right after reboot: - strace -f -o/tmp/log date (attach both the date output and /tmp/log output) - echo $LANG - locale - locale -a And then the same commands after locale-gen. So we could diff the result.
Created attachment 502942 [details] Logs after reboot before locale-gen
Created attachment 502944 [details] logs after locale-gen
I don't use separate /usr and it happened even for root so it isn't /home issue too.
Interesting! Looking at the 'strace' and 'locale -a' outputs my guess is the following file /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive has different content after each reboot. That's unexpected. Can you verify that the file changes after reboot? If it does the next step will be to find what changes that file. For me $ sha1sum /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive stays the same after each 'locale-gen' run.
Yep, I gets: 0aabbb59cf38131b7d7b6e9f9441dde2e42e33bd after reboot 6ac977b958ffddd7b5b88538e3907cb71579f09a after first locale-gen (there it becomes correct) 01c288da64bb52bfdda249c586d9987d0dd73328 after second and so on locale-gen and before reboot (it still correct)
Same problem.
Can you find out what keeps overwriting the /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive on your system?
/usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive changes after every reboot, but attributes such ctime are not changing. If it is important, / is located on the LVM, which is located on the RAID-1 (using mdadm).
(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #10) > Can you find out what keeps overwriting the > /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive > on your system? I don't known how to do it.
> I don't known how to do it. Can you provide 'emerge --info'? It looks like people occasionally have this problem but nobody got to the bottom of it: https://bugs.gentoo.org/275039
I tried to remove write permissions on `/usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive` and parent folder but it didn't help.
Created attachment 506228 [details] emerge --info
I've just checked from liveUSB and it looks like `local-archive` breaks on shutdown.
If you are using openrc in /etc/rc.conf you can enable rc_logger="YES" and check /var/log/rc.log after reboot. If it's done by one of the services it might output typical locale-gen output and give out what process does it. That culd give you a list of services to disable one by one and check it they alter locale-archive. Another shot would be to enable audit subsystem in kernel and setup audit daemon to track write access to locale-archive. Example audit config for /etc/ files: http://xmodulo.com/how-to-monitor-file-access-on-linux.html The trick is to keep auditd running long enough at system shutdown.
Created attachment 506250 [details] rc.log
Looks like this is not a glibc problem. First, I tried to update glibc to 2.26-r3, but problem is remained. Then I tried to use audit to determine who writing to /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive, but unsuccessfully. Nobody writes there, at least while the auditd is launched. But, I found a workaround. Solution: 1. Generate locale-archive (locale-gen) 2. Create a copy of locale-archive file (cp /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive /root) 3. Boot system from live CD (SystemResqueCD for example) 4. Mount / 5. Replace /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive by a created copy (cp /mnt/gentoo/root/locale-archive /mnt/gentoo/usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive) 6. Reboot to system Maybe the cause of the problem is mdadm with lvm?
Yeah, it sounds very much like underlying block layer confusion which is very scary. It means there is already data loss happening.
I don't use lvm and it is too stable to be a data corruption.
(In reply to Oleg from comment #21) > I don't use lvm and it is too stable to be a data corruption. Do you use mdadm?
> Do you use mdadm? No
(In reply to Sergey Morozov from comment #18) > Created attachment 506250 [details] > rc.log Don't see anything suspicious there :(
It was fixed in sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11 .
