[SOLVED] LXC centOS 7 Locale changes with reboot

[lodperera]

I'm running CentOS 7 LXC container on proxmox 5.1

Issue is that the LANG= changes to empty after reboot.
I have to run

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

to change it back after the reboot.

Is there a way to persistently set this up for LXC?

proxmox-ve: 5.1-36 (running kernel: 4.13.13-5-pve)

pve-manager: 5.1-42 (running version: 5.1-42/724a6cb3)
pve-kernel-4.13.4-1-pve: 4.13.4-26
pve-kernel-4.13.13-5-pve: 4.13.13-36
libpve-http-server-perl: 2.0-8
lvm2: 2.02.168-pve6
corosync: 2.4.2-pve3
libqb0: 1.0.1-1
pve-cluster: 5.0-19
qemu-server: 5.0-19
pve-firmware: 2.0-3
libpve-common-perl: 5.0-25
libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-14
libpve-access-control: 5.0-7
libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-17
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-3
vncterm: 1.5-3
pve-docs: 5.1-16
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.9.1-6
pve-container: 2.0-18
pve-firewall: 3.0-5
pve-ha-manager: 2.0-4
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-2
glusterfs-client: 3.8.8-1
lxc-pve: 2.1.1-2
lxcfs: 2.0.8-1
criu: 2.11.1-1~bpo90
novnc-pve: 0.6-4
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.7.3-pve1~bpo9
ceph: 12.2.2-pve1

[root@helpdesk ~]# locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
[root@helpdesk ~]# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[root@helpdesk ~]# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[root@helpdesk ~]#

 

[lodperera]

I tried the following

1. Using crontab to run this command at reboot

@reboot export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

It didn't seem to work.

2. Then I tried to add it to the boot time script /etc/rc.d/rc.local

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

It didn't work as well.

I had to manually run the command both times.

 

[dcsapak]

this is a guest os setting, so i believe on centos you have to set your locale in /etc/locale.conf

 

[lodperera]

That did the trick.

I added the locale setting on my centos container as follows.

# cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.utf8

Then rebooted, it was all good.
Thanks.