Locales inside VE

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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.