Locale not working after upgrading glibc to 2.31

[arrudi]

Hi,

I've compiled and installed glibc 2.31 (original was 2.28) in my newly installed CentOS8 and right after installing the libraries, gnome-terminal doesn't work anymore.

I get the message 'Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Also when executing 'dnf' I get the same message. I assume locale issues are the reason for gnome-terminal not starting.

My /etc/locale.conf says LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" and in the directory /usr/lib/locale/ I can see a en_GB, en_GB.iso885915 and en_GB.utf8 (not capital)

locale -a
> 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
> POSIX

I've tried everything I've found in different forums but no luck.

Can anybody help me on resolving this issue? I still have a few libs to update and just the first one is really causing me pain (don't want to explain my challenges around libnss_nis and libnss_nisplus when installing glibc 2.31...)

Thanks in advance...

[TrevorH]

Guess what, replacing glibc is completely and utterly unsupported and you broke your system and get to keep all of the pieces.

Reinstall.

[stevemowbray]

I don't think you have chosen the right OS for your needs if you really need a different glibc. If you must have a different glibc from the one that CentOS provides (why?) then you should use a distribution that provides it.