Editing Locales inside VE

== 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 &lt;pgsql_data_dir&gt;/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.

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== Fix 4 (working on Ubuntu 8.04) ==

Simply install this package:

 aptitude install language-pack-en-base

== Fix 5 (works on Debian-like systems) ==

Generate the locale:
 dpkg-reconfigure locales
select the one missing and generate.

== Fix 6 (should work on recent Debian and Ubuntu distros) ==

 export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
 dpkg-reconfigure locales

Obviously change the en_US to your preferred language.


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 so the default LC will be used.
-== Fix 3 ==
-To fix this permanently for all new vzs you create, edit your '''/vz/templates/&lt;distro&gt;/&lt;version&gt;/&lt;platform&gt;/.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
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