setlocale error with chroot

Question

I have created a chroot jail and when I log in I get a bash warning bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

I tried to google the error, but wasn't able to find a solution

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 18 '12 at 00:21

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Sounds like you're missing /usr/lib/locale inside your chroot. Try copying them into place from your non-chroot'd /usr/lib/locale or chroot with LANG=C.

edited Jan 18 '12 at 00:21

yrk

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answered Jan 18 '12 at 00:06

Travis Campbell

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Chrooting with `LC_ALL=C` fixed it for me. – Torben Jul 03 '15 at 16:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '20 at 09:14

While Travis Campbell's answer is certainly very valid, I found an alternative solution on my Debian Buster chroot that probably also works on Ubuntu. In the chrooted environment:

apt update
apt install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales

I then selected the locale that the error message complained about (en_US.UTF-8). Exiting and going back to the chrooted environment doesn't display the error message anymore.

setlocale error with chroot

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