Package: localepurge Version: 0.7.3.9 Severity: important dmenu (from suckless-tools) and i3-dmenu-desktop (from package i3-wm) stopped working suddenly, after localepurge was upgraded
Two error messages are shown in .xsession-errors: warning: no locale support warning: no locale modifiers support The locale is set to fr_FR.UTF-8 $ echo $LANG fr_FR.UTF-8 but strace shows that dmenu tries to open /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE which is indeed missing, purged today by localpurge on upgrade. The workaround is simply to add en_US.UTF-8 to locale.nopurge, reconfigure localepurge and reinstall libx11-data Not sure why locale en_US.UTF-8 would be required, but it might be related to this: $ grep $LANG /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE fr_FR.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: fr_FR.UTF-8 The comments found in locale.dir suggests that the problem could be rather common, so localepurge should perhaps keep en_US.UTF-8 anyway. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.6.14 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages localepurge depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74 ii locales 2.30-8 ii perl 5.30.2-1 ii procps 2:3.3.16-5 ii ucf 3.0038+nmu1 localepurge recommends no packages. Versions of packages localepurge suggests: pn bleachbit <none> pn debfoster <none> ii deborphan 1.7.33 -- debconf information: localepurge/showfreedspace: true localepurge/dontbothernew: false localepurge/remove_no: localepurge/none_selected: false * localepurge/nopurge: en, en_US.UTF-8, fr, fr_FR, fr_FR@euro, fr_FR.UTF-8 * localepurge/mandelete: true * localepurge/use-dpkg-feature: false localepurge/quickndirtycalc: true localepurge/verbose: false
