[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

@dg1727: I see. Good that you figured it out. The entries in that ~/.dmrc file might have been set by a very old version of GDM. So yes, it may be some kind of old transition bug between different versions and/or different display managers. I'd suggest that we leave it at that. -- You received

[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

In my case, the problem was a file ~/.dmrc which was as follows: [Desktop] Language=en_US Langlist=en_US:en LCMess=en_US.UTF-8 Layout=us Session=xfce Deleting that .dmrc file fixed the issue. Neither the user of this user account, nor the admin user, has ever explicitly set a locale to en_US.

[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

@dg1727: I don't think you encountered a bug at all; you just have set an incorrect locale name. "en_US" isn't generated by default, and if it is present, it enables latin1 encoding, which you probably not want. Just update /etc/default/locale by running this command: sudo update-locale

[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

I'm having the problem, or a similar one, on Linux Mint 18.1 Serena XFCE, which is based on Xenial. My version of this problem affects many programs, not just update- manager: man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning:

[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

Possibly related to https://bugs.python.org/issue20087 ** Bug watch added: Python Roundup #20087 http://bugs.python.org/issue20087 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023421 Title:

[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

This bug is still present in Xenial, version 1:16.04.3. ** Tags added: xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023421 Title: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

I suspect that is related. In that case LANG is set to "en_IN", which is a perfectly valid name of the English/India UTF-8 locale. $ cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep en_IN en_IN UTF-8 Changing LANG to "en_IN.UTF-8" makes the error messages go away. So there

[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

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[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

I doubt this problem was there in old versions of Ubuntu. When I run terminal command I got the following reply rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/apt/lists/lock': No such file or directory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1023421] Re: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale

It is sure...I can't see any 'lock' in /lists/The only folder in 'lists' is an empty 'partial' folder. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023421 Title: Update Manager can't