[Logcheck-devel] Bug#503000: Bug#503000: Bug#503000: logcheck fails due to a perl warning

[Gerfried Fuchs]

	Hi again!

* Jan Evert van Grootheest <j.e.van.grootheest at caiway.nl> [2008-10-23 19:42:28 CEST]:
> Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, den 21.10.2008, 19:11 +0200 schrieb Jan Evert van
>> Grootheest:
>>> System Events
>>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>> 	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>>> 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
>>> 	LC_ALL = (unset),
>>>     are supported and installed on your system.
>>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>>> -- end quote --
>>>
>>> Obviously there's something wrong with perl. But I also consider it a bug that logcheck produces
>>> 'half' a result in this manner. It should really not be doing this.
>>
>>  It's not really just wrong with perl but your general locale setup.
>> Please see /etc/environment and /etc/locale.gen. I expect that you have
>> a LANG=en_US.UTF-8 entry in the former but not in the later. This will
>> spit out messages like this with every other perl code you are using,
>> like e.g. also in upgrade logs, and I expect you haven't filed a
>> bugreport against apt for that, did you. :)
>
> /etc/environment and /etc/locale match. And I did that, long time ago,  
> through 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'.

 Can you provide them, by chance? Also /etc/default/locale? And there is
no /etc/locale, I was talking of /etc/locale.gen, just to be sure.

> And with apt its just a warning, here the output is missing. It's really  
> that the perl warning is the only content of the mail.

 I don't think that the output really is missing. I rather suspect that
there wouldn't had been any output at all but the locale problem
produced output that logcheck (hopefully understandable) thought would
be relevant to send along.

 Did you really receive only messages with the perl warnings and no
single line, at all? I mean, overall, not just in some of the mails.

 So, please offer the informations I've asked for above to be able to
take a closer look, thanks.

 So long :)
Rhonda