Locales inside VE

2008-03-21T17:18:53Z

Skehlet: added error given by PostgreSQL in case of missing locales

== Problem description ==

After creating a VE (e.g. using centos-4-i386-default template)
running perl (any perl script), results in the warning message:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "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")

Another common problem is with PostgreSQL, if it won't start up and you see something like this in your <pgsql_data_dir>/serverlog:

invalid value for parameter "lc_messages": "en_US.UTF-8"

== Resolution ==

Some of templates have removed locales inside, since locales take really much space (~20Mb)
while not needed in most cases (except for the default "C" locale).

So in this example '''/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME''' and other files are missing.

== Fix 1 ==

reinstall glibc-common package using the command:
# rpm -ihv --force glibc-common.rpm

== Fix 2 ==

Or '''disable''' overriding of LC_* variables in '''/etc/ssh/sshd_config''':

# Allow client to pass locale environment variables
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

to

#AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

so the default LC will be used.

== Fix 3 ==

To fix this permanently for all new vzs you create, edit your '''/vz/templates/<distro>/<version>/<platform>/.rpmmacros''' and change the line <b>%_install_langs C</b>
to include the language(s) you want, for example:

%_install_langs C:pt_PT:pt_PT.UTF-8:en_US:en_US.UTF-8

or simply

%_install_langs all

After this you will need to rebuild your [[OS template cache]], for example:

vzpkgcache -r centos-4-i386-vmirth
vzpkgcache centos-4-i386-vmirth

[[Category: Troubleshooting]]
[[Category: Templates]]

Locales inside VE

2008-03-21T17:14:50Z

Skehlet: added a permanent fix for the missing locale problem

== Problem description ==

After creating a VE (e.g. using centos-4-i386-default template)
running perl (any perl script), results in the warning message:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "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")

== Resolution ==

Some of templates have removed locales inside, since locales take really much space (~20Mb)
while not needed in most cases (except for the default "C" locale).

So in this example '''/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME''' and other files are missing.

== Fix 1 ==

reinstall glibc-common package using the command:
# rpm -ihv --force glibc-common.rpm

== Fix 2 ==

Or '''disable''' overriding of LC_* variables in '''/etc/ssh/sshd_config''':

# Allow client to pass locale environment variables
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

to

#AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

so the default LC will be used.

== Fix 3 ==

To fix this permanently for all new vzs you create, edit your '''/vz/templates/<distro>/<version>/<platform>/.rpmmacros''' and change the line <b>%_install_langs C</b>
to include the language(s) you want, for example:

%_install_langs C:pt_PT:pt_PT.UTF-8:en_US:en_US.UTF-8

or simply

%_install_langs all

After this you will need to rebuild your [[OS template cache]], for example:

vzpkgcache -r centos-4-i386-vmirth
vzpkgcache centos-4-i386-vmirth

[[Category: Troubleshooting]]
[[Category: Templates]]

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