On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:31:04 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote: > Florian Kulzer writes: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 15:05:10 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> Hi, I too have some issue with UTF-8, although I can install and remove > >> software without a problem, my logs get filled with perl warnings about > >> locales. > > > > If you want help with that then we need to see the warning messages. > > from logcheck: > Security Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > and from cron: > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > > I have screen running in utf8 mode now, and with Emacs/gnus reading my > mail I can use nice glyphs to display threading, and software still > installs or updates despite these warnings so I am not worried too much > about it anymore, its more of an annoyance than anything.
Maybe the locale variables are not properly defined for root. What do you get if you run su - -c locale (Or log in as root on the console and check the "locale" output then. If you normally use "su" without the "-" option or "sudo" to do your root work then you will not necessarily notice a problem with root's own locale definitions.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]