en_US locale with glibc-2.2.3-2

[Chris Garrigues]

As mentioned on this list yesterday, I installed the PLD version of RPM.  This 
also required installing the PLD version of glibc-2.2.3-2.

Now, much to my dismay, I get odd errors with RPM relating to locales:

# rpm -qa
rpm: loadlocale.c:221: _nl_load_locale: Assertion `idx % __alignof__ (u_int32_t) == 0' failed.
Aborted

LC_ALL is set to en_US.  If I unset it, the problem goes away.  If I set it to 
POSIX, the problem goes away.  If I set it to pl_PL (can't imagine why it 
occured to me to try that ;-) , the problem goes away.  If I set it en_GB, the
problem returns.

My solution is to change my /etc/sysconfig/i18n to unset it (I assume this is 
the same as setting it to POSIX), but as someone who lives in that part of the 
world that only uses the lower part of the character set, this was a bit of a 
shock to have to learn how locales work.

Chris

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