Upgrading from dapper to edgy causes locales to stop working during installation

That is not abnormal for dapper->edgy upgrades. Do the locales function
again afterwards?

locales function perfectly when the upgrade is finished. I just
thought this behaviour isn't so good, since some programs display text
during their upgrade, and may even ask questions, and because the
locales aren't configured, these questions aren't translated.

On 10/3/06, Dennis Kaarsemaker <email address hidden> wrote:
> That is not abnormal for dapper->edgy upgrades. Do the locales function
> again afterwards?
>
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> Upgrading from dapper to edgy causes locales to stop working during installation
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/63687
>

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Haggai Eran

We have this problem on every release. Since libc is upgraded first, locales do not work any more afterwards; they have to be regenerated.

Michael, is it possible to solve that in the dist-upgrader? I. e. by upgrading/configuring the locales package right after upgrading glibc?

Solution of this bug is very simple! I found it:

Simply, you should install locales and language-support for edgy:

1. Edit file /etc/apt/sources.list and replace dapper for edgy (if it is not done)
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install locales
4. sudo apt-get install language-support-pl (pl is languagee code, insert here your language code)
5. sudo apt-get install language-pack-pl (pl is languagee code, insert here your language code)
6. sudo apt-get install language-pack-pl-base (pl is languagee code, insert here your language code)
7. Again edit /etc/apt/sources.list to replace edgy to dapper (to undo changes and use dapper repository again)
8. sudo apt-get update]
9. restart X-Window, changes will work

Bug solved!

kzez, that's all good, but isn't the point that this should be working automatically? Locales work in dapper, you expect them to work in upgrade, and then also in edgy (as per Martin's comment).

The 18 month support period for Edgy Eft 6.10 has reached it's end of life. As a result, we are closing This Edgy Eft task.

Hardy Heron 8.04 was recently released. It would be helpful if you could test the new release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download. Please let us know your results. Thanks.

I don't think this bug exist in hardy. I don't remember seeing these errors when upgrading.

I have seen this bug recently, I believe on the Gutsy -> Hardy upgrade. If ferevently expiring bugs like this as if they were support requests is the policy, it's little wonder that this was one of the more minor problems amongst many (that caused an unusable/unbootable machine for the third successive upgrade).

I see this bug upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10