Is "cannot change locale" a known issue/weirdness?

Using Zynthian
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Every time I ssh in, I’m greeted with warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8). This is also happening when I run any build scripts, as various locale-sensitive stuff happens in the build. These are my current locale envvars:

root@zynthian:~# export | grep -iE 'lang|lc'
declare -x LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

Is this something that I can fix/silence, and is it a problem?

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I think you are the very first to try this on a zynthian SD image. I must say that i never think about this until now …

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Webconf occasionally asks me if I want to translate the page…

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You can try the following:

apt install --yes locales

If locales are installed you can try to enable yours:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Or: Let ssh know not to use your locale settings:

sed -i "s/^AcceptEnv LANG LC_\*/#AcceptEnv LANG LC_\*/" /etc/ssh/sshd_config && systemctl restart ssh

I would use the last one… why do you need locales on a Zynthian? We need:
more_bass

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It makes the drones easier to target. . . .

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I mean, I don’t need locales, I just was wondering if this is an issue with my install or if everyone gets it. When you ssh into your zynthian, do you see the locale error?

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No you are right, I get the same warnings. It is a common raspberry pi issue and can be fixed in the local bash profile (if I remember correctly) or by configuring the locale as above. For some reason I got quite used to it, either way it is nothing to worry about.

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Sweet, thanks all! Looks like the underlying issue is raspbian’s default en_GB being the only one generated by the default configuration of locales on the image, but the default locale envvars on our SD-image being en_US. I reconfigured locales adding en_US to the generated locales and it fixed it!

@jofemodo is this something we care enough about I should put in a ticket for the RC3 image?

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Zynthian is a Synthesizer and we don’t need locales at all.

Thanks!

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Well, steady on. Localisation could help with the menus and admin functions. ‘Subsnapshot’ surely deserves a translation to be inflicted on the Catalonians. Maybe we’ll get submissions for Chinese, Korean and uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀?

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I don’t have plans to translate any of the zynthian’s interfaces. I don’t know a single person interested on synthesizers that doesn’t understand english to the level of understanding a User Interface.

I would prefer to focus on real features … MORE BASS, PLEASE :wink:

Thanks!

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