[SOLVED] perl error: what does this mean?

[przxqgl]

i just upgraded to noble, and (apart from a hiccup getting thudnerbird installed) it seemed to go flawlessly...

except that, when i rebooted, i was presented with a perl error message that said:

perl: warning: setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_CA:en",
LC_ALL = (unset)
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "osa_GB.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8",
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_GB.UTF-8">

attachment included.

i checked in system settings, and it appears that all of these settings are set correctly, but i'm fairly sure that i have overlooked something really simple to make this message go away, and i can't recall what it is...

any clues would help. thanks.

[oshunluvr]

LC_ALL = (unset)

The "unset" is probably your issue. I've run into this as well.

Probably the easiest fix is to add this to the bottom of your ~/.profile file:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

or GB instead of US. I believe it's just a perl error and this shouldn't effect anything else.

Alternately, you can ignore it.

I also added:

export LC_PAPER=letter
export EDITOR=kate

because I couldn't get letter size paper to stick.

[jlittle]

LC_ALL is normally not set. IIUC it overrides the other localization settings, mostly.

przxqgl, in a konsole, what does the command locale say? On my 24.04 it is

$ locale
LC_ADDRESS=en_NZ.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_NZ.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_NZ.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_NZ.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_NZ.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_SE.UTF-8​

and, what are the contents of ~/.pam_environment and ~/.config/plasma-localerc?

[przxqgl]

przxqgl, in a konsole, what does the command locale say?

$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=osa_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

which is, apparently, exactly what it should be...

what are the contents of ~/.pam_environment and ~/.config/plasma-localerc?

~/.pam_environment

hmm... i don't appear to have a ~/.pam_environment

what IS ~/.pam_environment?

~/.config/plasma-localerc contains:

[Formats]
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=osa_US.UTF-8
​

which, again, apparently, is exactly what it should be.

[przxqgl]

Alternately, you can ignore it.

i have been doing that for a while now, and it has never seemed to make that much difference.

[jlittle]

hmm... i don't appear to have a ~/.pam_environment
what IS ~/.pam_environment?
[/QUOTE]
I just looked for files that had LC_ variables in them, and found that one. I hadn't noticed it before. An AskUbuntu post says that it is deprecated.

systemd is supposed to do this stuff. I suggest looking at the man page for environment.d, either locally or at the Ubuntu page.

[jlittle]

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Something, somewhere is trying to set an LC_ variable to something funky. As well as the places mentioned in the man page, I suggest checking /etc/default/environment, and make sure your start up scripts (.profile and if you use bash, .bashrc) aren't setting something, either LC_ALL or LOCPATH.

bash also runs everything in /etc/profile.d, and mine has 01-locale-fix.sh, which runs locale-check. You might try running

local-check C.UTF-8

maybe it would explain the problem.

Some folks have solved similar problems by running

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

I note that that doesn't offer to generate a locale for osa_EN, (Osage nation in Oklahoma) which makes me suspicious of it. Maybe that LC_TIME setting isn't properly supported.

[przxqgl]

The "unset" is probably your issue. I've run into this as well.

Probably the easiest fix is to add this to the bottom of your ~/.profile file:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

or GB instead of US. I believe it's just a perl error and this shouldn't effect anything else.

well, i don't know how it made a difference, and i still don't know exactly what the error message meant, or what was trying to set LC_ALL to something funky, but inserting this code into my ~/.profile seems to have eliminated the problem.

than queue!