Locale error

After its done upgrading you shouldnt see it anymore. try installing a package or doing updates and see if you still get it. towards the end of the upgrade locales get set up but try it and make sure you dont get them any longer. if so let me know what you do to receive it. Thank you for your bug report

Unfortunately, I found so many errors during the upgrade that it was unable to finish and left my Dapper with some Edgy packages, creating some incompatibility that I needed or to reinstall Dapper or make a clean install of Edgy.

I did a clean install of Edgy in order to have some problems fixed. So I cannot give further details in this errors. But please, pick up a testing machine and try to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy. You will find several errors that must be fixed.

i see those error when i upgrade but once the upgrade is done they are fixed and that is normal afaik since the packages are being upgraded before the locales are being upgraded and generated so you will see those errors until the locales are installed and generated. I will be doing another install again on monday/tuesday of next week so i will go for the upgrade from dapper to edgy and see if its changed since friday the 1st of sept.

I was not able to reproduce this on dapper > edgy upgrade. Is this still a problem for you?

As I mentioned before, this unsuccessful upgrade leaded my system to a very unstable state, with Dapper and Edgy packages mixed. So I had to make a clean install of Edgy in order to get things working again. So I can't say to you if this still a problem.

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I've been getting the same error dozens of times in my attempt to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy.

perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_CA:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_CA.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.

I just got hit by this when upgrading a modified dapper server to edgy from commandline using apt-get.

I successfully completed "apt-get upgrade" but choked on "apt-get dist-upgrade".
Looking in /usr/share/locale, I see my locale no longer present.
I'm able to continue by prepending my commandline with an LC_ALL assignment, i.e.

$ sudo LC_ALL=C apt-get dist-upgrade

Christian Gunning,
Make sure your locale is installed by running the following commands:
$ sudo locale-gen pt_BR.UTF-8 (or whatever locale you want)

It's simple:

$ sudo locale-gen pt_BR.UTF-8
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

good luck

I upgraded 8.04 to 8.10 and this affected me.
david@larch:~$ sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8
Generating locales...
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
david@larch:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_TIME = "en_GB",
        LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales...
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  en_IN.UTF-8... done
  en_NZ.UTF-8... done
  en_PH.UTF-8... done
  en_SG.UTF-8... done
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... done
  en_ZW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
david@larch:~$

I also was affected when upgrading from 9.10 to 10.4, both in 32 bit and 64 bit in two different computers.
Renamed the /usr/lib/locale folder and excecuted dpkg-reconfigure locales
and ALSO edited /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale
to set LC_ALL="es_ES.utf8".
Then, I have a Spanish Ubuntu. However, not good if I want both a catalan and Spanish account...
Seems that a sort of regression is here.

And same issue in TWO computers from 10.10 to 11.04.

cd usr/lib/locale
sudo mv locale-archive locale-archive.old
sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" apt-get update
sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" apt-get upgrade
sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" dpkg-reconfigure -a

(I think I had to do it a couple of times...)
solved the issue and avoided a "fresh" install.

My computers had in common that three languages were installed (Spanish/English/Catalan) in one and (Spanish/English/German) in another...

Anyway I guess that 3 years later no one will read this...