Using localectl on Arch, Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data

Question

Using Arch.

$ localectl status
System Locale: n/a

VC Keymap: n/a
X11 Layout: n/a

Okay cool, so I just do set locale, right?

 $ localectl list-locales
 en_US.utf8

...cool, I'll use en_US.utf8

 localectl set-locale en_US.utf8
 Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data...

What could possibly be wrong?

This should not be closed as "cannot be reproduced". I had the same problem and arrived here via search and found the solution. — Caleb, Oct 24 '14 at 08:21
Going by the number of upvotes, it looks like quite a few of us could reproduce this error message by mis-using the localectl command. :) In my case, it was on a CentOS 7 system. — Anthony Geoghegan, Jul 10 '18 at 13:33

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 13 '14 at 21:12

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Never mind, I was just using it wrongly.

From info localectl:

...this [command] takes one or more assignments such as LANG=en_US.utf8

edited Sep 13 '14 at 21:12

HalosGhost

answered Sep 13 '14 at 21:07

robert

1

Anyone know how I set the syntax highlighting for a post to bash? – robert Sep 13 '14 at 21:18
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You can force it with:  (it is generally triggered by the tags)... – jasonwryan Sep 13 '14 at 22:01
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To clarify, instead of localectl set-locale en_US.utf8, you used localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.utf8". – ILMostro_7 Jun 25 '16 at 23:21
@jasonwryan, I suspect bsh is means beanshell – akostadinov Jul 19 '16 at 12:02
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... and log out and log in again to take effect. – WesternGun Jan 30 '18 at 18:55

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