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luatex package

  1. Bug #633473
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 633473

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Berthold Stoeger (bstoeger-a) wrote :

Same happens for me. Problem is: /usr/bin/luatex refuses to start with the message:

Unable to read environment locale:exit now.

strace luatex gives:

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/en_AT.UTF-8/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/en_AT.utf8/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/en_AT/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/en.utf8/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/en/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "Unable to read environment local"..., 44Unable to read environment locale:exit now.
) = 44
exit_group(1) = ?

This made my upgrade to BionicBeaver fail. Pretty much a disaster.