On lun 09/07/12, 07:38, Genes MailLists wrote: > Now certain bash commands (e.g. "su -") give this error (sorry for wrap) > > -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale > (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory > -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_NUMERIC: cannot change locale > (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory > -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale > (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory > -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale > (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory > -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_MESSAGES: cannot change locale > (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory > The udpate to glibc 2.16.0-2 went well - and /lib is now a soft > link to /usr/lib. I do not think that your glibc update went really well, because the locales have not been generated (and this should have happened when glibc was updated). Since you are nonetheless out of the /lib-symlinks hell, I think that reinstalling glibc should be safe for you and perhaps solve your issue: #pacman -S glibc Giorgio