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stacato
PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:56 pm 
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I just kicked my old deb install and gave the new Ubuntu 8.04 image a shot.

The few clicks for it went smoothly till I opened the AJAX console and logged in. So far so good. Problems started happening when I ran aptitude safe-upgrade.

I started getting all different type of errors.
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Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 8561 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace util-linux 2.13.1-5ubuntu1 (using .../util-linux_2.13.1-5ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
install-info(ipc): no file /usr/share/info/dir, retrieving backup file /var/backups/infodir.bak.
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/info/dir': No such file or directory
install-info(ipc): copying /var/backups/infodir.bak to /usr/share/info/dir failed, giving up: No such file or directory
... ... ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.13.1-5ubuntu2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: error processing util-linux (--configure):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing:
util-linux
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done


1# apt-utils not installed
2# locale nowhere to be found
3# /usr/share/info directory completely missing

Point 3# fixed by creating the directory.
Point 1# solved by copying the the apt-utils package over and installing it.

Still stuck on 2# though.
Who would have thought that such a simple task as running aptitude on a freshly installed system could lead to this?

Same result if runnign apt-get on the fresh install. (tried it after redoing the install just to have a fresh system to start of nothaving run aptitude on it).

... anybody else had this?
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:25 pm 
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I believe the locales package should fix some of those issues.

Code:
aptitude install locales
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stacato
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:45 pm 
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Aye, so it did indeed.
Just weird ... haven't had this happen to me before.
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I'm having this same problem, and "aptitude install locales" didn't seem to work. Any ideas?
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stacato
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:57 am 
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@Hamilogre

I started out fresh.
This is what I did.

Downloaded following packages from the Ubuntu mirrors.

locales_2.7.9-4_all.deb
belocs-locales-bin_2.4-2.2ubuntu7_i386.deb (dependancy of locales)
apt-utils_0.7.9ubuntu17_i386.deb
wget_1.10.2-3ubuntu1_i386.deb

scp'ed them over.

First dpkg -i apt-utils. Then belocs, then locales and finally wget.
Somewhere in the process /usr/share/info was also created.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 3:00 pm 
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I kept getting locale-related warnings until I installed the language-pack-en package also.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:54 pm 
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I used
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localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
after I installed the locales package. That fixed the locale problem for me.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:31 pm 
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If locales is already installed,
Code:
dpkg-reconfigure locales

and generate your local locales.
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