getlocale.sh

[emninger]

How does getlocale exactly work. I startet the script and activated the 3 locale which im interested in, ie.

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de_DE.UTF-8
de_DE/ISO-8859-1
de_DE@euro/ISO-8859-15

In extlinux i set

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lang=de_DE
Now, i see, not for all extensions there are also locales.tcz. But for those, which exist, shouldn't it work automatically? Is it presumed to put the locales.tcz in the bootlist? Or, for those ondemand in /tce/ondemand/ ?

I rebooted several times, but not one program with an existing locale is shown up in german ... (??)

[Misalf]

Correct. A  *-locale.tcz  will be loaded automatically if present in  /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/optional  and if the  lang=  boot code was used (or if $LANG was set another way).

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if [ "$LANG" != "C" ]; then
LOCALEEXT="${1%.tcz}-locale.tcz"
[ -f "$LOCALEEXT" ] && install "$LOCALEEXT"
fi

It depends on the extension if German translation is actually provided though.
I know it works for Xfe.

[emninger]

Thanks for the explanation; the script you provided, should i put it in /sda1/opt (where .filelist and .xfilelist sit) or start it from within bootlocal.sh ?

[Misalf]

No. That's already part of tce-load.

Which extensions did you test and did you download their respective *-locale.tcz?

[emninger]

It continues to not work for me: To be completely coherent, i changed getlocale.sh and chose only one option (de_DE/ISO-8859-1) and set lang=de_DE in the bootcode.

I tried the existing locales for:
XFE
Viewnior
lxrandr
vlc
nano

[curaga]

To check it's working, type "locale". There should be no errors.

[emninger]

That's what i get:

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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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=de
LC_CTYPE="de"
LC_NUMERIC="de"
LC_TIME="de"
LC_COLLATE="de"
LC_MONETARY="de"
LC_MESSAGES="de"
LC_PAPER="de"
LC_NAME="de"
LC_ADDRESS="de"
LC_TELEPHONE="de"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de"
LC_ALL=


[curaga]

Then something is wrong. "locale -a" will list valid options, "de" is not a valid one.

[emninger]

Then something is wrong. "locale -a" will list valid options, "de" is not a valid one.

I restarted getlocale.sh, chose de_DE, de_DE.UTF-8, de_DE@euro, set lang=de_DE@euro in the bootcodes, but the result remains the same.

May be, there is some config file which is not covered by my backup setup? What does getlocale.sh exactly do?

[curaga]

getlocale.sh generates the locale archive extension, containing those locales you chose. The bootcode then activates one of them.

If locale claims it is "de", then you have two lang= bootcodes, with one being wrong perhaps?

[emninger]

This is my extlinux.conf:

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DEFAULT core
LABEL core
KERNEL /tce/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet lang=de_DE@euro waitusb=10:UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" tce=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" restore=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" swapfile=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" home=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" opt=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" local=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" tz=CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3 showapps blacklist=b43,ssb,bcma noautologin

(I even left out kmap=de to not create eventual confusion; which, otoh, in any case seem to not have any effect on the console, which despite that setting still uses english/us keymap. Aterm uses the lower 128 ascii of the german keyboard, but i think, aterm is an X application and therefore controlled by the keyboard setting of X).

[coreplayer2]

Looking through the list of valid lang settings i didn't see this   

lang=de_DE@euro

 

also I don't believe the "local=" boot code is valid either..

I think we said earlier that showapps is only for diagnostic purposes as it delays the boot process a little


corrected boot code

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DEFAULT core
LABEL core
KERNEL /tce/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet lang=de_DE waitusb=10:UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" tce=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" swapfile=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" home=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" opt=UUID="3b305a3c-d95b-4f80-b1fa-b7baaf7db06f" tz=CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3 blacklist=b43,ssb,bcma noautologin

[emninger]

But getlocale.sh says:

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Now processing... /
Locales installed. Creating extension... |

Done. The extension is at /mnt/sda1/tce/optional/mylocale.tcz and in onboot.lst
Reboot with lang=xyz (for example lang=de_DE@euro) to start using this.


Press enter to quit.

In any case, i tried all, but to no extent. The result of

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~$ locale is:

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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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=de
LC_CTYPE="de"
LC_NUMERIC="de"
LC_TIME="de"
LC_COLLATE="de"
LC_MONETARY="de"
LC_MESSAGES="de"
LC_PAPER="de"
LC_NAME="de"
LC_ADDRESS="de"
LC_TELEPHONE="de"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de"
LC_ALL=

I suspect there might be somewhere a rest of the previous (default) Xvesa setup, because at the end of the boot process i get the - obviously harmless - prompt:

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xset: unable to open display ""

[emninger]

Some additional info. When i do APPS > Maintainance > Check for Updates i see there this error msg:

Error Could not verify mylocale.tcz

. Why? And what does that mean?

[Juanito]

mylocale is the local extension created by running the script from the getlocale extension.

mylocale doesn't exist in the repo, hence the error message.