runaway terminal

[Radovitch]

Hi,
This morning I booted up my Dapper Drake, went straight to the terminal and started to type in an ndiswrapper command ( -l). Suddenly the whole prompt started multiplying itself down the page and just kept on going. I finally had to close it to stop it. But when I reopened it it started all over again. So I did a reboot and everything seemed ok except when I typed in the same command I got:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Any idea what happened here and how to correct it?

Thanx
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[devils casper]

locales are messed up somehow. execute this to fix it

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

if it throws any error message, post exact error message here.

[Radovitch]

You're not kidding they're messed up. All kinds of crazy things are happening. Just after running your command the prompt took off multplying itself again. When I tried to shut down the open web page it started throwing out so many copies of itself that if I hadn't rebooted it would have crashed. For the moment all is quiet so I am getting this off quick before it starts up again. Here is the message generated when I ran the command:

:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Password:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
Current default timezone: 'Europe/Brussels'.
Local time is now: Thu May 3 21:05:26 CEST 2007.
Universal Time is now: Thu May 3 19:05:26 UTC 2007.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it

[devils casper]

post the output of 'locale -a' command.

[Radovitch]

ran your command but at a certain point it threw me into ubuntu configuration, a blue and gray screen and now it wants to know:

This package installs common CA (Certificate Authority) certificates in
/usr/share/ca-certificates. You can select certs from these available
certs to be installed into /etc/ssl/certs. This package will make
symlinks and generate a single file of all your selected certs,
/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt.
Select certificates to activate:

brasil.gov.br/brasil.gov.br.crt[*] cacert.org/cacert.org.crt[*] mozilla/ABAecom_=sub.__Am._Bankers_Assn.=_Root_CA.crt[*] mozilla/AOL_Time_Warner_Root_Certification_Authority_1.crt[*] mozilla/AOL_Time_Warner_Root_Certification_Authority_2.crt[*] mozilla/AddTrust_External_Root.crt
and a whole list of others.

How do I proceed with these certificates?

[Radovitch]

Further to my last message, I configured the certificate authority but I find that I'm being thrown into a whole host of configuring options being asked to make choices and frankly for some of them I have no idea what to choose.
Thanks for your patience,

[devils casper]

choose default options.

[Radovitch]

Ok, it took over an hour to complete and with a few points it asked me to enter configuration specifications that did not appear to have default options but I somehow managed to get through it. The result is posted here although it was so long that I had to cut it in half as otherwise the forum wouldn't accept it. Just as I was writing this reply it went into runaway mode again but it seems to have stopped temporarily, a good thing as otherwise I wouldn't have even been able to write this.
Something tells me that the only out of this is going to have to be a completely new installation of the OS.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").



xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20070504231716


perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").