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Alex Hoppus
Asked: 2018-10-09 00:43:06 +0800 CST

What is the correct way to fix an assertion in loadlocale.c?

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I have recently updated Ubuntu to 18.04. After this, issuing the command ld constantly failed with the following assertion:

loadlocale.c:129: _nl_intern_locale_data: Assertion `cnt < (sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_TIME) / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_TIME[0]))' failed.

I have googled this problem and it looks like this is a well known issue. All of the solutions that I have read suggested fixing this using the following command:

export LC_ALL=C

See, for example, this one. However, doing so breaks fonts of the commentaries on my native language in VIM for example.

So, this solution is not suitable for me-. Are there any other ways to fix this issue?

locale language-support 18.04

3 Answers

  1. As easy as:

    export LC_ALL=C

    and then run your command. LC_ALL works as a fallback if something is not set (like LC_TIME in your case)

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  2. I had this problem on Ubuntu 14 trusty, I solved it as follows.

    First, edit /etc/locale.gen and add the locales you want.

    Make sure the utf8 in the locale name is lowercase, not e.g. UTF-8.

    So mine are:

    en_US.utf8
ru_RU.utf8

    Now run, as root:

    rm -f /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
locale-gen --no-archive
locale-gen --no-archive en_US.utf8
locale-gen --no-archive ru_RU.utf8

    the --no-archive flag is important.

    Now make sure in your startup files like ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc etc. you set LANG and related variables to the lowercase utf8 form, see the directories in /usr/lib/locale for the correct form.

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  3. I added this to my .bashrc and it fixed the issue for both Ubuntu 18 and 20 when I was having that same message with an old 32 bit gdb for an Arm cross compiler

    export LANG=C

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