Help:Locale errors
Ubuntu-specific information.
Overview
Locale errors are associated with the language of a system. These typically occur on new instances in Wikimedia Cloud VPS.
This page will show you how to solve this issue.
How do locale errors happen?
- Using the pywikipediabot's interwiki.py script as an example here.
Immediately after creating the new instance that you would like to use, you may see errors like:
- Python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "interwiki.py", line 375, in <module>
import wikipedia as pywikibot
File "/home/hydriz/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 147, in <module>
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 539, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
- Perl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "en_SG.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Such errors can break the interwiki bot script, making the script totally useless on that instance.
Solution
Run the following command to install the required language packs:
sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base
And to also rebuild it again to ensure it works:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
...and you are done!
Communication and support
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- Read the News wiki page
Use a subproject of the #Cloud-Services Phabricator project to track confirmed bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud Services infrastructure itself
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