Bug 974039

Summary: localectl: Failed to issue method call
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Matthias Runge <mrunge>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: dan.mashal, harald, johannbg, lnykryn, lzachar, msekleta, notting, plautrba, stephent98, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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Description Matthias Runge 2013-06-13 10:39:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
[root@turing ~]# localectl set-locale en_US.utf8
Failed to issue method call: Invalid argument

[root@turing ~]# localectl list-locales| grep en_US.utf8
en_US.utf8

I think that also applies for other locales, in fact, I didnt found any working.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm -q systemd
systemd-204-6.fc19.x86_64
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2013-06-13 13:43:07 UTC 
# man localectl 
...
       set-locale LOCALE...
           Set the system locale. This takes one or more assignments such as "LANG=de_DE.utf8", "LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8", and so on. See locale(7) for
           details on the available settings and their meanings. Use list-locales for a list of available locales (see below).
...

# localectl set-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
# localectl 
   System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
                  LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: de-latin1
      X11 Layout: n/a
Comment 2 Steve Tyler 2013-07-12 16:50:23 UTC 
The syntax for "localectl set-locale" is not clear from the man page.

At the least, the man page should provide examples like the one in Comment 1:
# localectl set-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8

Further, the syntax should be specified explicitly:

localectl set-locale [LANG=<locale-spec>] [LC_MESSAGES=<locale-spec>] ...
(List all possibilities, here.)

"localectl -h" should show the same information.

Please reopen this for the inadequate documentation.
Comment 3 Steve Tyler 2013-07-12 17:01:05 UTC 
And explicitly refer to the "locale" command:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
Comment 4 Steve Tyler 2013-07-12 18:14:40 UTC 
For reference, here is the online documentation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/localectl.html