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Vinícius Ferrão
Asked: 2016-07-10 09:55:37 +0800 CST

Missing locales on CentOS 7

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We are running a Werewolf cluster and the node images are missing the locales. Only C and POSIX are available. The system uses CentOS 7 as base.

It isn't really an issue but it's a very annoying to receive warnings at each command, like those:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory

I've double checked if glibc is installed and everything appears to be ok:

[root@n01 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i glibc
glibc-common-2.17-106.el7_2.6.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.17-106.el7_2.6.x86_64
glibc-2.17-106.el7_2.6.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.17-106.el7_2.6.x86_64

And locale -a outputs this:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX

Any idea to generate all the missing locales?

centos localization centos7 glibc

2 Answers

  1. A tad late, but yum has glibc-langpack-* modules:

    yum list glibc-langpack-\*
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  2. You could try 

    yum reinstall glibc-common

    which should just erm, reinstall the package.

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