Locale issues in Ubuntu 8.04 + LAMP (xen VPS)

[raghu]

The default installation of ubuntu 8.04 with LAMP got it locale settings screwed. On console utility like "man" an error will pop-up:

man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Running locale-gen will throw another cryptic error:

Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... cannot write output files to `(null)': No such file or directory failed
Generation complete.

Running an strace on locale-gen showed that a critical directory /usr/lib/locale was missing! Just create it and run locale-gen again. That should solve this problem.

Raghu

[DanL@VPSLink]

I'll get this information up to our template developers - thank you for the report.