Kernel fun => dreaded "locale not supported" problem

[Florian Diesch]

David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> I'm getting a problem I've seen before, and that has been posted about
> all over the web, but to which I can't find a solution that works.
>
> When starting gdm, I get the following:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>       LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",
>       LC_ALL = (unset),
>       LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>
>   are supported and installed on your system

See /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED fpr a list of locales supported by Ubuntu.
If yours are amoung them run
 sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
(or whatever locales you want) to create the locales.
 locale -a
lists all locales currently created on your system (not case sensitive)





   Florian
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