crashes "locale" "gtk-applets"

[cement_head]

Binary package hint: libc6

I upgraded to libc6 (2.4-1ubuntu10) (edgy eft) so that I could try to install softwaresuspend2. Before I got there lbc6 has caused strange behaviour (randomly stops being updated on the GUI) of gnome-powermanager applet. Additionally, I receive a GTK-WARNING and GDK-WARNING during just about every package change to the system. It seems that the "LOCALE" cannot be set.
Several other pieces of software have stopped working altogether and have had to be removed, such as FIRESTARTER.

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

Did you upgrade your whole system to edgy, or just libc6?

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

Hi,

    Just libc6. BUT during this upgrade, I had to remove lots of older
packages that conflicted. I have subsequently forced a downgrade back
to the dapper libc2.36 and think (hope) that solves the problems. All
the Locale warnings dissappeared.

    I guess I'll wait to install softwaresuspend2.

Andor

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 17:43 +0000, Jeff Bailey wrote:

> Did you upgrade your whole system to edgy, or just libc6?
>

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[Rob Hunter (robertjhunter)]

I had a similar problem, where perl and many other programs would complain about being unable to set locale. Rebuilding locales with locale-gen appeared to work, but the problem persisted.

Tracing uncovered that LC_COLLATE was being refused for some reason, and using LC_COLLATE=C avoided the problem entirely.

It seems that the "locales" and "libc6" pacakges have a version dependency that isn't picked up by the package management system -- upgrading "locales" to match libc6 returned my system to a happy state.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

reassigning to locales, a tighter dependency on libc6 may be needed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I'll add a tighter libc6 dependency.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Oh, dependency is already there, so this is a dup of bug 63687.