Hello, I have a weird problem here, I have to run locale-gen on every boot to have the en_US.UTF-8 locale available (probably for others too): I have "export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'" in /etc/profile.env (no LC_*) No #%options in /etc/locale.gen, and only this uncommented line: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 If I run locale-gen, then everything work as expected: | # locale -a | C | en_US.utf8 | POSIX | # locale | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_ALL= But on the next reboot I'm again with the pseudo locales C and POSIX, and I have to run locale-gen again, but before I do so, below is the output of some commands: | # locale -a | locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory | locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory | locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory | C | POSIX | # locale | locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory | locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory | locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_ALL= | # locale-gen -u | * Generating 1 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs | * (1/1) Generating en_US.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 264: 2689 Segmentation fault "${DESTDIR}"usr/bin/localedef ${LOCALEDEF_OPTS} -i "${input}" -f "${charmap}" -A "${ALIAS}" --prefix "${DESTDIR}" "${locale}" | [ !! ] | * Generation complete with the localedef full command being 'localedef -c -i en_US -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias --prefix / en_US.UTF-8' I've found this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214687 (localedef segfaults w/gcc-4.3 when glibc built with USE=glibc-omitfp), but glibc-omitftp is disabled for me. The bug suggested to build glibc with gcc-4.4.0 but this was of any help in my case. Note that once I ran locale-gen, I no longer have this segmentation fault with localedef (on fgo: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5817902.html ) We found that locale-gen generates the files /usr/lib{,64}/locale/locale-archive, but these files are changed/replaced on reboot: | # md5sum /usr/lib{,64}/locale/locale-archive | 3140075c41f7c0f18d1a78ae10f29d97 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive | 3140075c41f7c0f18d1a78ae10f29d97 /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive | | # after reboot | # md5sum /usr/lib{,64}/locale/locale-archive | afb9c16fb8e831cdb2adc749a14594db /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive | afb9c16fb8e831cdb2adc749a14594db /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive | | reboot | # ... | # md5sum /usr/lib{,64}/locale/locale-archive | afb9c16fb8e831cdb2adc749a14594db /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive | afb9c16fb8e831cdb2adc749a14594db /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive the funny thing is that if I run locale-gen before rebooting, the new files after the reboot won't even be the same: | # after locale-gen | # md5sum /usr/lib{,64}/locale/locale-archive | 3140075c41f7c0f18d1a78ae10f29d97 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive | 3140075c41f7c0f18d1a78ae10f29d97 /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive | | # reboot | a7f34963a481d0e2c3b0aefaa510d638 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive | a7f34963a481d0e2c3b0aefaa510d638 /usr/lib64/locale/locale-archive I'd really like to know what's going on, this is annoying since some deamons (eg: wicd) won't start before I run locale-gen again. If you need anything else, please tell me. Thank you
paludis 0.36.1 Paludis build information: Compiler: CXX: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.3.3 CXXFLAGS: -march=core2 -O2 -pipe LDFLAGS: -Wl,--as-needed DATE: 2009-06-18T12:25:58+0200 Libraries: C++ Library: GNU libstdc++ 20090124 Reduced Privs: reduced_uid: 111 reduced_uid->name: paludisbuild reduced_uid->dir: /var/tmp/paludis reduced_gid: 1014 reduced_gid->name: paludisbuild Paths: DATADIR: /usr/share LIBDIR: /usr/lib64 LIBEXECDIR: /usr/libexec SYSCONFDIR: /etc PYTHONINSTALLDIR: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages RUBYINSTALLDIR: /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux Environment: Format: paludis Config dir: /etc/paludis World file: /var/db/pkg/world Repository layman: format: unavailable location: /var/db/paludis/repositories/layman sync: tar+http://git.exherbo.org/layman_repositories.tar.bz2 sync_options: Repository installed-virtuals: format: installed_virtuals root: / Repository virtuals: format: virtuals Repository gentoo: format: ebuild location: /var/gentoo/overlays/gentoo 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Well, I fixed this by copying the a backup of the generated locale-archive file before any service were started. Then everything is back to normal. I suppose there was some kind of lock on the file by some daemon (wicd and mpd have it open), which replace the generated files by the one they had opened? But I don't know if that's really the reason, will investigate later. But this bug can be closed as INVALID
