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Error in fresh Ubuntu 22.04.2 install: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8) crossgen-corelib.proj #82873
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I recently formatted my Surface Pro X (ARM64), installed WSL, and added Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS.
I cloned runtime, installed all the required dependencies for building, and ran the command:
build.sh clr+libs -rc release -arch arm64
Unfortunately, the build failed with an error that crashed my WSL and I had to restart my laptop. This was the error that showed up multiple times before freezing the WSL terminal window:
setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8) crossgen-corelib.proj
Unfortunately, I was unable to see the exact line where it failed. As mentioned, this message showed up many times and the window was frozen.
I searched this error and found an AskUbuntu thread that suggested running these commands against the desired locale:
sudo locale-gen <localeID>
sudo update-locale LANG=<localeID>
I tried running it using the one that showed up in the error and it succeeded:
carlos@calopearm:~$ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
carlos@calopearm:~$ sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
<no output here, so I assume it succeeded>
After that, I built runtime again (same command), and it succeded.
What could've caused the error when building? Is this some misconfiguration in our build scripts that we need to fix, or some problem with this Ubuntu version?
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am11 commentedon Mar 2, 2023
On Debian / Ubuntu the quickest way to set runtime build environment is by running:
eng/install-native-dependencies.shwhich sets up with default locales for you.e.g. MSBuild Exec task require locales during the build: dotnet/dotnet-buildtools-prereqs-docker#284. Debian-like distros don't come with preconfigured locale in base installation.
carlossanlop commentedon Mar 2, 2023
Thanks @am11. Good info.
The error message I saw wasn't helpful enough. I expect more than one user hitting this problem and scratching their heads. So I wonder if we should improve the way we handle this:
carlossanlop commentedon Mar 2, 2023
Alternatively, we could simply improve our workflow documentation to include locales in the list of dependencies to install, and describe the manual steps to execute on Debian-like distros to prevent the error:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/workflow/requirements/linux-requirements.md#toolchain-setup
Similar to what the docker PR fixed: https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-buildtools-prereqs-docker/pull/284/files
mangod9 commentedon Mar 17, 2023
dont think this is a crossgen2 specific issue, rather something with infra?
mangod9 commentedon Jul 24, 2023
Closing since this is not crossgen2 related. @carlossanlop, please reopen if you are still hitting any failures.