locale deletion trauma

[tmcthree]

er.. I followed a guide to free up some disk space on my AA1 in which it said I should delete "locales".

However I think I might have been a bit, shall we say, over-zealous....

Now when I run add remove programs I get this error..

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"An unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save the crash dump and file a detailed bug report against pirut at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla

Component: pirut
Summary: TB9c48eca5 locale.py:476:setlocale:Error: unsupported locale setting

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 476, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 472, in main
pm.run()
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 400, in run
self.doRefresh()
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 416, in doRefresh
self.doRefreshRepos(self._onlyrepo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 324, in doRefreshRepos
pbar = PirutProgressCallback(_("Retrieving software information"),
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 368, in lgettext
return tmsg.encode(locale.getpreferredencoding())
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 512, in getpreferredencoding
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 476, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
Error: unsupported locale setting

Local variables in innermost frame:
locale:
category: 0"
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As you can probably guess, by the fact that I've done such a stupid thing, that I know very little about compooters and F*** all about linux..

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[londonali1010]

I can't help! Sorry! But I've had the same error now. I thought it was a Skype install issue, but I now can't install anything. Been scouring the forums for a while; I'll let you know if I come across anything.

I should mention that I haven't done any deleting of locales, or whatever...

Just a point of interest, should you be able to use both pirut and yum? Probably a stupid question, but I haven't been able to use pirut since I started using yum with the livna repository, although I have also done some other mods in between...

 

[londonali1010]

Well, I haven't solved the pirut issue, but I got around it by installing the .rpm file for Skype with the command rpm -U xxx.rpm (where "xxx" is the name of the rpm file).

Maybe that would help for you.

 

[Wild78]

Well, you haven't done anything silly (I hope not yet...)

Look at the last code

sudo find /usr/share/locale/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -not -name en\* -exec rm -rf {} \;
sudo rm /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
sudo localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF8

It is trying to force the default to en_US.
More than obvious, if you are using Linpus in a different language than US English, it will fail, not complaining about anything until the point you want to run some software touching the locales...

Just change en_US into your language...

 

[barrie]

Hi tmcthree,

Sorry to hear about your issue,

er.. I followed a guide to free up some disk space on my AA1 in which it said I should delete "locales".

What exactly did you do & which guide did you use? As this should take of most

sudo yum clean all