Hi, On 2026-10-29 22:54, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2026-10-19 08:16, Ryan Cunningham wrote: > > Package: libc6 > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > Version: 2.44-3 > > Severity: important > > Tags: d-i l10n > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I encountered the following error message when attempting to run > > 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' to change my computer's locale settings to > > Spanish: > > > > [sudo] password for ryan: > > Generating locales (this might take a while)... > > es_US.UTF-8... done > > Generation complete. > > By default, dpkg-reconfigure locales does not provides the es_US.UTF-8 > locales as it is not a standard one. I guess you manually added it to > /etc/locale.gen, which is fine. Could you please confirm that?
Ok, checking again, it appears that this locale is now a standard one, sorry about the confusion. > > *** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > > LANG=es_US.UTF-8 > > ---------- > > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > > locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory > > ANSI_X3.4-1968 > > ---------- > > The problem there is that the LC_ALL environment variable is somehow > defined to en_US.UTF-8 on your system (note *en*, not *es*). With such a > configuration you need to generate both en_US.UTF-8 and es_US.UTF-8 > locales. > > This variable is not written by the 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' scripts, > which only touch the LANG environment variable, so it is not clear from > where it comes from. You should maybe check in /etc/locale.conf or grep > /etc, and remove it, unless you prefer to generate both locales. This part is still valid. The problem is the configuration of the LC_ALL variable, I am not sure from where it comes from, but not from the locales packages. Regards Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://aurel32.net
