Problem with 'Setting locale failed'

[mlytle0]

So when I do a normal update with Paru, everything works overall, but I keep getting this warning:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_ADDRESS = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_NAME = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_MONETARY = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_PAPER = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_IDENTIFICATION = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_TELEPHONE = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_MEASUREMENT = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_TIME = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_NUMERIC = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LANG = “en_US.UTF-8”
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_ADDRESS = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_NAME = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_MONETARY = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_PAPER = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_IDENTIFICATION = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_TELEPHONE = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_MEASUREMENT = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_TIME = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LC_NUMERIC = “en_US.UTF-8”,
LANG = “en_US.UTF-8”
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).

How do I fix this? I have read what the locale controls, fonts and other things and everything seems to be working, but I’m sure it should’nt be doing this.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[dalto]

What is the output of the command locale

[mlytle0]

I get this:

[mark@mark-optiplex9020 ~]$ 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_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[dalto]

How about the output of sudo locale-gen

[mlytle0]

Maybe it worked?

[mark@mark-optiplex9020 ~]$ sudo locale-gen
[sudo] password for mark:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for mark:
Generating locales…
en_US.UTF-8… done
Generation complete.
[mark@mark-optiplex9020 ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[dalto]

Does paru work without warnings now?

[mlytle0]

Yep, thanks that cleared it right up, after paru, i’m not getting that warning now. I wonder what caused that?

[dalto]

I don’t know. glibc updated recently but I wouldn’t think it would cause your default locale to break.

[petsam]

@dalto

glibc updated recently

It seems they also changed the error message (for the same issue=some locale value called “Default”). They are watching us!!
For some programs (perl related?), when one of the individual LC_ vars had no value, they assumed Default, and looking for an actual Default lovale, which does not exist in Arch.