[Users] perl LOCALE issue- and solution

[Kirill Korotaev]

Added: http://wiki.openvz.org/Locales_inside_VE
Thorsten, thanks for this info - never knew about ssh overrides.

Thanks,
Kirill

Thorsten Schifferdecker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> or Disable overideing LC_* variables in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
> 
> # Allow client to pass locale environment variables
> AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
> 
> to
> #AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
> 
> so default LC ist used.
> 
> Regards,
>  Thorsten
> 
> Am Mo, 10.12.2007, 12:55, schrieb Kirill Korotaev:
> 
>>was it -minimal template?
>>Some of templates AFAIK have removed locales,
>>since locales take really much space (~20Mb) while not needed in most
>>cases
>>(except for the default C one).
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Kirill
>>
>>
>>Michael Klatsky wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all-
>>>
>>>I ran into a puzzling issue and found a solution- but I am wondering
>>>what the root cause really was, and whether others have run into this:
>>>
>>>After create a VE using the repo provided centos-4-i386-default
>>>template, I entered the VE via ssh. When running perl (any perl
>>>script), I got the message:
>>>
>>>perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>>>perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>>        LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
>>>        LC_ALL = (unset),
>>>        LANG = "en_US"
>>>    are supported and installed on your system.
>>>perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
>>>
>>>After doing a bit of hunting on methods to set this, including these
>>>pages:
>>>http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/#short
>>>http://perldoc.perl.org/perllocale.html#Permanently-fixing-your-system's-locale-configuration
>>>
>>>I started looking closely at glibc-common, as when I did "locale -a" I
>>>got the message that locale directories could not be found.
>>>
>>>I checked, and indeed- rpm -q glibc-common reported that the package
>>>was installed. However, after checking some of the files included that
>>>should have existed, I found that the local dirs were not there
>>>(example: /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME). So, I grabbed the
>>>glibc-common rpm and did a rpm -ivh --force,  and voila- all was
>>>properly installed.
>>>
>>>The purpose of my post is to document this for others who may have run
>>>into this, and t solicit any theories as to why that package was
>>>"phantomly" installed. Significantly, other than the locale issue- the
>>>system was operating properly.
>>>
>>>Thanks- and so far quite impressed
>>>
>>>
>>
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