setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (0.UTF-8)

hungryguy · 5 December 2016 15:21

Just had to re-install the latest version for my Pi downloaded today . (the backup I created on USB flash failed to reinstall but that’s another story)
Anyway trying to install samba and openvpn and I get the following :/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (0.UTF-8)
This repeats many many, times and I don’t know what I should do. I have tried to go in and set the locale from dietpi-config and I get a warning perl set locale failed?

Don’t know where to go from here. Any help appreciated.

Fourdee · 5 December 2016 15:41

Lets try a reset to en.GB:

dietpi-config > Language/Regional Options > Locale.
Scroll down to en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 and make sure it is ticked (*) with spacebar, then press enter
Select en_GB.UTF-8 as default locale, then press enter
reboot

Once rebooted, you should see the following when running locale:

root@DietPi:~# locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

hungryguy · 5 December 2016 16:49

Thanks very much for the fast reply. II have tried that more than once and it doesn’t appear to save the changes after reboot. I still get this

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = “0.UTF-8”,
LANG = “en_GB.UTF-8”
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale (“en_GB.UTF-8”).

hungryguy · 5 December 2016 16:55

Just to confirm locale comes up with this:
root@DietPi:~# ~# locale
-bash: ~#: command not found
root@DietPi:~# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=“0.UTF-8”
LC_NUMERIC=“0.UTF-8”
LC_TIME=“0.UTF-8”
LC_COLLATE=“0.UTF-8”
LC_MONETARY=“0.UTF-8”
LC_MESSAGES=“0.UTF-8”
LC_PAPER=“0.UTF-8”
LC_NAME=“0.UTF-8”
LC_ADDRESS=“0.UTF-8”
LC_TELEPHONE=“0.UTF-8”
LC_MEASUREMENT=“0.UTF-8”
LC_IDENTIFICATION=“0.UTF-8”
LC_ALL=0.UTF-8
root@DietPi:~#

Fourdee · 5 December 2016 17:28

Please paste results of:

cat /etc/locale.gen | grep '^[a-z0-9]'

Sciamano · 6 December 2016 13:39

May I suggest:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

and see what happens?

hungryguy · 6 December 2016 14:04

Results posted as requested:
root@DietPi:~# cat /etc/locale.gen | grep ‘^[a-z0-9]’
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
root@DietPi:~#
root@DietPi:~# Fourdee
-bash: Fourdee: command not found
root@DietPi:~# Site Admin
-bash: Site: command not found
root@DietPi:~#
root@DietPi:~# Posts: 1448
-bash: Posts:: command not found
root@DietPi:~# Joined: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:36 pm
-bash: Joined:: command not found
root@DietPi:~#
root@DietPi:~#

hungryguy · 6 December 2016 14:07

No luck wont change locales:-

root@DietPi:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = “0.UTF-8”,
LANG = “en_GB.UTF-8”
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale (“en_GB.UTF-8”).
Generating locales (this might take a while)…
en_GB.UTF-8… done
Generation complete.

Sciamano · 6 December 2016 15:12

That’s odd!

alessandro.psrt · 6 December 2016 16:02

It happen to me when I removed a package that now I can’t remember exactly. Look in /etc/environment and change 0.UTF-8 to your locale, or comment according to https://wiki.debian.org/Locale#Standard.

Hope this helps.

hungryguy · 7 December 2016 08:03

Thanks, that worked . I was able to edit the /etc/environment to change locacle as you suggested.

alessandro.psrt · 9 December 2016 17:58

If I remember right it happen when passing from dropbear to openssh in a non-fresh install.

spanx20 · 31 January 2017 13:52

Hi,

I’ve got the same problem and i’ve tried these solutions… close, but no sigar.

Can anyone help me?

spanx20 · 15 February 2017 08:10

bump

anyone?

vinanrra · 21 February 2017 23:04

Having same problem with fresh install.

johnvick · 22 February 2017 05:41

I had same fixed by:

/etc/environment

LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

sakal · 21 March 2017 09:37

Easy fix work for me:

root@raspberrypi:~$ export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
root@raspberrypi:~$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
root@raspberrypi:~$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
root@raspberrypi:~$ locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
root@raspberrypi:~$ dpkg-reconfigure locales

as soon as I run the last I was asked to choose the locale to generate. My choice was en_US-UTF.8

That’s all, the annoying message disappear!

Fourdee · 21 March 2017 14:18

Thanks John,

Bizarre, I’am still yet to experience the reported 0.UTF-8 issue, on any board (and I go through alot, testing most days lol ).

Still unsure what the cause of this is, but we can look at applying John’s fix into DietPi by default to try and prevent this for our users:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/825

Fourdee · 21 March 2017 15:02

Ok, John’s fix is coming in v147.

John, any chance you could you check if setting current default locale into /etc/environment results in the 0.UTF-8 issue reoccurring?

Get current locale:

cat /etc/default/locale | grep -m1 '^LANG=' | sed 's/.*=//'

Then replace /etc/environment entries accordingly.
Reboot.