Syd:
I sometimes get this error message (MDK8.0, su'd to root in a terminal window):
Can you define "sometimes", please?
Is it serious and what do I do about it? Incidentally I am not trying to run perl - for example, the above is part of the output in response to the supermount command.
Maybe supermount runs perl?
To me, the problem looks like you may not have the en_GB locale set up and configured. There's some info on this in the perllocale(1p) man page. How you correct it on Mandrake, I'm not sure.
Mark,
To me, the problem looks like you may not have the en_GB locale set up and configured. There's some info on this in the perllocale(1p) man page.
Thanks, that man page has helped greatly. I can see that LC_ALL is an environmental variable and I have reset it in a terminal to en_GB, following the instructions for a 'temporary fix'.
If it does not persist after restarting (which presumably, being temporary, it will not) then I will need to discover how to make it so. There is a section on permanent fixes but at the moment I cannot follow it.
Any suggestions for reading on environmental variables will be helpful - I tried 'man environment' as a wild guess :)
How you correct it on Mandrake, I'm not sure.
The irritating thing is that It has only occurred after a re-install (which I have done several times after variously breaking things that I could not fix). Why this install should have given a different result than the previous one is beyond me.
Syd
(Excuse the mailer - I've popped back into eudora to check the sent-message time)
Following my query earlier today about the LC_ALL environmental variable, I set it from root i.e LC_ALL=en_GB export LC_ALL
I was surprised to find that it is still set after restarting so must be written to disk somewhere (well I assume so anyway). My question now is - where are these values 'normally' stored? I use quotes because so many things seem to be distro-specific. I'm using MDK8.0 but info on any distro would be interesting. I looked in /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (I think) but couldn't see anything related.
TIA Syd
Right, I think the locale is now configured correctly. And I think/hope that the time zones are now OK too - I noticed earlier that my messages were set 5 hours into the future.
I rummaged around in KDE and the Mandrake Control Centre and noticed that, although I had specified during the install that I am in the UK, some areas of good ol' MDK8.0 was of the opinion that I was somewhere undefined in Africa. Although I don't believe that there is a 5-hour time difference between GMT and anywhere in Africa. More likely the US east coast (EDT ?).
It does seem to muddle a lot of things. And yes, I know lots of you are sniggering 'that's why we install debian instead." Well, maybe sometime although I may try Suse first.
Anyway, with a bit of luck the current message will actually appear in the correct chronological order :) And that's enough for one day, I think. I've spent quite a few hours on this, time that I really should have been doing other things. God, this is like going back years to when I first fiddled about with DOS, learning how to set things up. Unfortunately I just don't have as much free time to play around with these days so I don't know if I shall realistically be able to persist with this.
Regards Syd
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