Locale cannot be set; terminal cannot display characters

[Zatta]

Binary package hint: language-pack-pt

I updated today language-pack-pt and its dependencies. After updating, I can't get menus correctly displayed in Portuguese (it shows "Places" not "Locais"). Furthermore, if I open a terminal, it is not able to display "Músicas", rather it shows "M??sicas", and I cant write characters such as íãç. If I call "locale", the answer is:

---
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: N?o foi poss?vel atribuir LC_ALL ? localiza??o padr?o: Arquivo ou diret?rio n?o encontrado
LANG=pt_BR
LANGUAGE=pt_BR:en
LC_CTYPE="pt_BR"
LC_NUMERIC="pt_BR"
LC_TIME="pt_BR"
LC_COLLATE="pt_BR"
LC_MONETARY="pt_BR"
LC_MESSAGES=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="pt_BR"
LC_NAME="pt_BR"
LC_ADDRESS="pt_BR"
LC_TELEPHONE="pt_BR"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pt_BR"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pt_BR"
LC_ALL=
---

In System>Preferences>Keyboard, the "type to test settings" writes characters such as íçã correctly.

If I initiate a tty via Alt+Ctrl+F1, the terminal displays and writes correctly such characters.

Trying "sudo update-locale LANG=pt_BR", "sudo locale-gen pt_BR", " sudo locale-gen --purge" did not help.

Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
language-pack-pt:amd64 (10.10+20110315, 10.10+20110315+mfs1)

I updated a few other language packs also:
language-pack-pt-base:amd64 (10.10+20110315, 10.10+20110315+mfs1)
language-pack-en-base:amd64 (10.10+20110315, 10.10+20110315+mfs1)
language-pack-en:amd64 (10.10+20110315, 10.10+20110315+mfs1)

I have maverick-proposed enabled.

[Andrey Yurkovsky (andrey.yurkovsky)]

I think you need do somthing like this:

$sudo localedef --no-archive -c -i pt_BR -f UTF-8 pt

and then reboot

[Eimann (eimann)]

Please update gdm through the normal update process and logout/login. This should fix the issue.
See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/746694

[Zatta (rw-alnahar)]

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/746694