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> and that's not sufficient to run locale-gen.

Do you maybe know what is missing and why it works if the output gets
redirected?


> Why on earth do you want to re-generate all locales at boot?

Upstart scripts may also be started a long time after the system has
booted. I have just found this bug at some point in the past and I'm
normally reporting every bug I'm finding.

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Title:
  locale-gen --purge stops after purging the locales

Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 dev with locales 2.13+git20120306-12 and
  upstart 1.12.1-0ubuntu1 and I have found a combination between locale-
  gen and upstart to cause some weird behavior. Initially my locales are
  looking this:

  root@ubuntu:~# locale -a
  C
  C.UTF-8
  de_AT.utf8
  de_BE.utf8
  de_CH.utf8
  de_DE.utf8
  de_LI.utf8
  de_LU.utf8
  en_US.utf8
  POSIX

  
  Here is an example script (stored in /etc/init/test.conf):

  exec locale-gen --purge &

  
  Here is the result:

  root@ubuntu:~# start test && sleep 60 && locale -a
  test stop/waiting
  locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
  locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
  locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
  C
  C.UTF-8
  POSIX

  
  locale-gen has purged the locales but something has caused it to stop then. But if I'm forwarding stdout to /dev/null all is working fine. Here is the updated script:

  exec locale-gen --purge > /dev/null &

  
  And this is now the result:

  root@ubuntu:~# start test && sleep 60 && locale -a
  test stop/waiting
  C
  C.UTF-8
  de_AT.utf8
  de_BE.utf8
  de_CH.utf8
  de_DE.utf8
  de_LI.utf8
  de_LU.utf8
  en_US.utf8
  POSIX

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