en_US locale with glibc-2.2.3-2

[Chris Garrigues]

As mentioned on this list yesterday, I installed the PLD version of RPM. This
also required installing the PLD version of glibc-2.2.3-2.

Now, much to my dismay, I get odd errors with RPM relating to locales:

# rpm -qa
rpm: loadlocale.c:221: _nl_load_locale: Assertion `idx % __alignof__ (u_int32_t) == 0' failed.
Aborted

LC_ALL is set to en_US. If I unset it, the problem goes away. If I set it to
POSIX, the problem goes away. If I set it to pl_PL (can't imagine why it
occured to me to try that ;-) , the problem goes away. If I set it en_GB, the
problem returns.

My solution is to change my /etc/sysconfig/i18n to unset it (I assume this is
the same as setting it to POSIX), but as someone who lives in that part of the
world that only uses the lower part of the character set, this was a bit of a
shock to have to learn how locales work.

Chris
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[Michal Kochanowicz]

Post by Chris Garrigues
# rpm -qa
rpm: loadlocale.c:221: _nl_load_locale: Assertion `idx % __alignof__ (u_int32_t) == 0' failed.
Aborted

I've reported exactly same problem to both (users & devel) polish lists,
but it seems that nobody gives a shit and/or nobody knows a reason and
solution. For some programs (rpm, for example) it is enough to recompile
them (but I have no idea why), for others it is not.

Post by Chris Garrigues
LC_ALL is set to en_US. If I unset it, the problem goes away. If I set it to
POSIX, the problem goes away. If I set it to pl_PL (can't imagine why it

It should be enough to set LC_MESSAGES. It works for me with LC_MESSAGES
set to "C", "en_EN" and "pl_PL". I didn't check others.

Post by Chris Garrigues
My solution is to change my /etc/sysconfig/i18n to unset it (I assume this is

I wouldn't call this "solution". It's a _workaround_ :(

Regards