Possible bug with locales 64 bit 3.0

[aus9]

Hi

a small update running on a live dvd of 64 bit 3.0

repeated above commands with similar result ....hmmm

Try this link
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-set-...inux-unix/

and in particular to use different commands from above as follows

Code:

sudo su
locale-gen en_AU.utf8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

update-locale

# prompt returns without any error displayed

##### as a local user test it
linux@linux:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


# OK try a different updater command
root@linux:/home/linux# locale-gen
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_AG.UTF-8... done
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  en_IN.UTF-8... done
  en_NG.UTF-8... done
  en_NZ.UTF-8... done
  en_PH.UTF-8... done
  en_SG.UTF-8... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_ZA.UTF-8... done
  en_ZM.UTF-8... done
  en_ZW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

I may be completely wrong here......but it appears it is ignoring the file contents of /etc/locale.gen

According to that link there may be a locale.conf but no such file found.

I am still clueless

so I destroyed the file and re-created it with the following contents

Code:

cat /etc/locale.gen
en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8
root@linux:/home/linux#

but the update command is still ignoring it