Yes, I agree with you that locale-archive gets corrupted from time to time. In my two machines with multiple languages installed, now and then, after upgrades and dist-upgrades, I notice locale errors in the terminal, or weird behaviour in apps (Kile, Nautilus) and then, I figure "let's remove the broken locale-archive" and things magically solve.
Now, locale gives: LANG=es_ES.utf8 LANGUAGE=es_ES:es:en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="es_ES.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.utf8" LC_TIME="es_ES.utf8" LC_COLLATE="es_ES.utf8" LC_MONETARY="es_ES.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.utf8" LC_PAPER="es_ES.utf8" LC_NAME="es_ES.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.utf8" LC_ALL=es_ES.utf8 I guess that locale's output appears now correct... Indeed, now the 13.10 upgrade and apps work well. However, that happened to me in previous upgrades and, well, the locale-archive file broke later in time. The issue is that I cannot pinpoint when or how locale gets corrupted. I suspect it's something done in dist-upgrades or release-upgrades because I never change language settings and I recall seeing such behaviour after significant updates (but maybe I do not recall accurately, sorry for the vagueness of the info). I attach the apt- term.log which shows the many errors I got: things got bad at line 17812... but maybe because the locale was corrupted earlier on... ** Attachment added: "Log of terminal output when upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 with corrupt ES locale." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/663694/+attachment/3650952/+files/apt-term.log.tar.bz2 -- 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
