en_US locale with glibc-2.2.3-2

Michal Kochanowicz michal at michal.wa-wa.pl
Thu May 10 21:50:56 CEST 2001


On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:52:15PM +0000, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> 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
I've reported exactly same problem to both (users & devel) polish lists,
but it seems that nobody gives a shit and/or nobody knows a reason and
solution. For some programs (rpm, for example) it is enough to recompile
them (but I have no idea why), for others it is not.

> 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 
It should be enough to set LC_MESSAGES. It works for me with LC_MESSAGES
set to "C", "en_EN" and "pl_PL". I didn't check others.

> My solution is to change my /etc/sysconfig/i18n to unset it (I assume this is 
I wouldn't call this "solution". It's a _workaround_ :(

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