On a fresh vanilla RHL 6.0 english installation with all updates applied updatedb and locate fails. the decrypt_database open function fails. (maybe a MD5 PW problem ???). on a GERMAN installation many translations (e.g. mc) crashes the input masks (even during install). upgrade of previous (Apollo kernel 2.0.xx) Versions goes *very* poor. It's the best way to backup /home data and reinstall. english install with german latin1 keymap works fine, but after setting LANG=de etc. in .bash_profile various programs will *not* run (such as man, less...). That's a Problem with the glibc 2.XX and the "new" native language support...
The functionality of updatedb/locate has been replaced with a package called slocate.
The slocate problem is solved by upgrading to slocate-1.6 and running updatedb manually. I've changed the component to glibc in order to resolve the NLS issues.
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This is not a glibc problem, and besides, "LANG=de man bash" works for me. There must be something weird going on with that installation.