Bug 863510 - locale settings not properly set for root
Summary: locale settings not properly set for root
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 858591
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 18
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-05 16:27 UTC by Jurgen Kramer
Modified: 2012-10-05 17:29 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-10-05 17:29:13 UTC
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Description Jurgen Kramer 2012-10-05 16:27:28 UTC
Description of problem:
When doing a su - to root warnings appear about locale settings

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Anaconda from Fedora18-Beta TC2

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. su -
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
See below

Expected results:
No problems with locale settings

Additional info:
Default install of Fedora 18 Beta TC2 only timezone changed to Europe/Amsterdam.
Freshly installed.


A few examples:

[kramer@localhost ~]$ su -
Password: 
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_MESSAGES: cannot change locale (en.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_NUMERIC: cannot change locale (en.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale (en.UTF-8): No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C

[root@localhost ~]# scp lo-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en.UTF-8)
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en.UTF-8)
[root@localhost ~]# scp local

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2012-10-05 17:29:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 858591 ***


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