[arch-general] broken locale after glibc upgrade

[arnaud gaboury]

After a recent upgrade, my locale was broken.

Here is extract from pacman.log:

[2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2015-02-11 08:20] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-02-11 08:20] [ALPM] transaction failed
[2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2015-02-11 08:21] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM] upgraded linux-api-headers (3.18.1-1 -> 3.18.5-1)
[2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM] upgraded glibc (2.20-6 -> 2.21-2)
[2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generating locales...
[2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generation complete.


I had to manually edit /etc/locale.gen, uncomment the needed locales,
then run locale-gen to fix this issue.

Any idea about what happened ?


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