Re: [PLUG] apt-get dist-upgrade gone haywire

[gyoza@comcast.net]

Here goes one of my wild guesses.  Try typing "locale -a" to see which
encodings are available.

Maybe try the following:

LANGUAGE = "en_US"
LC_ALL = "en_US"
LANG = "en_US"

I know I've played with those settings when switching to Japanese.


ARTHUR ALEXION wrote:

> I tried to upgrade from [a perfectly good] Ubuntu Hoary to Ubuntu
> Breezy via apt-get dist-upgrade, and it initially failed.
>  
> Re-running apt-get dist-upgrade with the --fix-missing option resulted
> in finally downloading and installing most of the failed packages, but
> still an error (dpkg code 1).
>  
> Now when I run apt-get dist-upgrade -f, I get the following errors:
>  
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>      LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en_US:en"
>      LC_ALL = (unset),
>      LANG = "en_US"
>   are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory.
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
> directory.
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory.
>  
> System boots, but X won't start.
>
>
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