Just in case someone reads this, updating from 12.10 to Ubuntu raring 13.04 today also encountered the same corrupt locale issues: the locale- archive got corrupted and around 1000 packages got problems, and remained unconfigured, leaving the system in a broken state.
Again, before rebooting, moving the locale-archive to locale-archive.old, as the post 18 suggests, as well as later issuing: sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" apt-get update sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" apt-get dist-upgrade suceeded in installing a nice 13.04 desktop. So, the root problem is still there but, anyway, the workaround allows getting through... However, I guess that this could be daunting for a novice ubuntu user, getting multitude of dependency errors and installation failure messages. Seems that either Catalan@Valencia, Spanish or English (or their joint coexistence) break the locale archive. In summary, for people hitting this bug (at least, I have hit it repeatedly since the 11.04 to 11.10 upgrade with Catalan@Valencia, Spanish and English simultaneously installed), I advise them to have a separate terminal open just in case they need to type that (well, or Ctrl-F1 I guess) or, (perhaps, not tested) upgrading by LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" do-release-upgrade & so that locale-related (sed?) commands do not fail. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663694 Title: apt-get fails with LANG=es_ES.utf8, succeeds with LANG=C To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/663694/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
