locales

**TimWhite** · 05-09-2004, 10:24 PM

Any idea what the following means, and how to fix it.
Happens during apt-get update.

Code:

  ro_RO.ISO-8859-2...LC_ADDRESS: `country_ab3' value does not match `country_num' value
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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TimW

**baldyeti** · 05-09-2004, 11:20 PM

You might try "apt-get -f install". You could also edit /etc/locale.gen and remove all locales which you don't need, amongst which possibly the offending romanian one...

**TimWhite** · 05-10-2004, 10:40 PM

Cheers, I hadn't thought of editing the /etc/locales.gen file

Seems to have fixed the problem.
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TimW

tr · 05-14-2004, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by TimWhite

Code:

  ro_RO.ISO-8859-2...LC_ADDRESS: `country_ab3' value does not match `country_num' value
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I got the same message when running 'localepurge' according to http://gnubox.dyndns.org:8080/~sunil/knoppixtweak.php instruction.

Don't even remember how I got it fixed but I think there was some bug in locales-package (from unstable). Also 'locale-gen' and 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' stopped in ro_RO.

-tapsa-

**Bukowski** · 06-02-2004, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by TimWhite

Any idea what the following means, and how to fix it.
Happens during apt-get update.

Code:

  ro_RO.ISO-8859-2...LC_ADDRESS: `country_ab3' value does not match `country_num' value
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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TimW

I googled around but the only solution I can find is:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure --force locales

and removing ro_RO.ISO-8859-2

then running apt-get upgrade again. Hope this helps someone. I suspect
this is no solution for people using that locale..