[SOLVED] Upgrade broke vim, tmux, j4-desktop (and perhaps more)

Question

I just upgraded my systems, and now several strange things are happening.
I'm using powerline fonts in tmux and vim/gvim. In gvim, everything behaves normal, but in vim, the fonts are just plain broken. Typing space just writes Â.
The fonts are also just plain broken in the terminal - tmux doesn't show anything in the statusline at all, while the output is garbled in vim.
Trying to start j4-dmenu-desktop also gives an error:
j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu="dmenu -p 'open' -i -z "                                 
SearchPath: /usr/share/applications/
SearchPath: /home/simendsjo/.local/share/applications/
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_S_construct null not valid
[1]    18502 abort (core dumped)  j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu="dmenu -p 'open' -i -z "
I noticed the upgrade included glibc and openjdk among other things.
I don't even know where to start trying to figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by simendsjo (2014-09-16 08:45:32)

Answer 1

Scimmia wrote:What is the output of `locale` and `locale -a`?
$ locale                                               
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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
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=
$ 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
nb_NO.utf8