Rofi wont launch - "Failed to set locale"

General system Newbie
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If I try to run rofi in the terminal, I get this error: Failed to set locale.

I ran sudo locale-gen and that produced this output:

Generating locales...
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

The above looks correct to me but am I missing something?
The output of locale -a is:

C
C.UTF-8
en_GB.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX

I have also followed the guide here and I still get the error.

What am I doing wrong here?

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Can we see the output of locale

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Adding to above

You have the en_GB UTF-8 enabled twice in /etc/locale.gen - not that it makes much difference - but you may be expecting somthing else.

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Here is an output of locale:

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: Invalid argument
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
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/UTF-8\ LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8\ LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8\ LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8\ LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8\ LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8\ LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8\ LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8\ LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8\ 
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

The LC_ALL part may be a variable I tried to set to get it to work. I have tried unset LC_ALL and that didn’t have any effect.

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Now that is not how it should look - It looks very much like a Plasma fart

Edit that line in /etc/locale.conf to look like this

LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
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That might be because I explicitly uncommented a line in /etc/locale.gen just to see if it helped.

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Did I format it badly in the Markdown?

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I don’t think so - please check the file /etc/locale.conf in a terminal editor

sudo nano /etc/locale.conf
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Here is the output from nano:

GNU nano 7.0                                                                     /etc/locale.conf                                                                                
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 \
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Leave only the first line (LANG=en_GB.UTF-8) in locale.conf.

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I’ve just tried that and I still get the error. I will restart to see if that helps.

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That was it. Thank you for helping me out :+1:

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May it be coming with the username @Polymorphism to have duplicate entries in locale?

Just joking… :laughing:

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:joy:

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this looks also wrong the linebreaks should not be there… but you removed them so no issue anymore…
2022-11-25_18-51
should be like so…

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