It looks like this is from a pacman hook, from package glibc-locales
It is in the repos, but I cant find any profile using it by default, so did you install it yourself?
For some reason the PKGBUILD is missing from the gitlab, while @philm is named maintainer.
We can probably guess it is the same or similar to this one that is posted in manjaro-arm.
“it” === “glibc-locales” package?
~/Desktop ❯ cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep glibc-locales
[2021-08-23T17:26:43+0300] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S a52dec aalib abseil-cpp accounts-qml-module accountsservice acl acpi acpid adobe-source-code-pro-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-kr-fonts adobe-source-sans-fonts adwaita-icon-theme alacritty alsa-card-profiles alsa-firmware alsa-lib alsa-oss alsa-plugins alsa-topology-conf alsa-ucm-conf alsa-utils android-tools android-udev aom apparmor appimagelauncher appstream appstream-glib appstream-qt archlinux-appstream-data archlinux-keyring argon2 ark at-spi2-atk at-spi2-core atk attica attr audacity audiofile audit avahi b43-fwcutter baloo baloo-widgets bash bashrc-manjaro bc binutils bleachbit bluedevil bluez bluez-libs bluez-qt boost-libs botan breath2-icon-themes breath2-wallpaper breeze breeze-gtk breeze-icons brotli btrfs-progs bubblewrap bzip2 c-ares ca-certificates ca-certificates-mozilla ca-certificates-utils cairo cantarell-fonts cdparanoia cdrdao cdrtools celt cfitsio 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xkeyboard-config xorg-fonts-encodings xorg-mkfontscale xorg-server xorg-server-common xorg-setxkbmap xorg-twm xorg-xauth xorg-xdpyinfo xorg-xhost xorg-xinit xorg-xkbcomp xorg-xkill xorg-xmessage xorg-xmodmap xorg-xprop xorg-xrandr xorg-xrdb xorg-xset xorg-xsetroot xorgproto xvidcore xxhash xz yajl yakuake zbar zenity zensu zeromq zimg zip zita-alsa-pcmi zita-resampler zlib zsh zsh-autosuggestions zsh-completions zsh-history-substring-search zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-theme-powerlevel10k zstd zvbi zxing-cpp zziplib'
[2021-08-23T17:35:00+0300] [ALPM] reinstalled glibc-locales (2.32-2)
[2021-08-23T17:37:09+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
[2021-08-24T05:52:38+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
[2021-11-17T10:57:59+0300] [ALPM] reinstalled glibc-locales (2.32-2)
[2021-11-17T10:59:31+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
[2021-11-17T11:52:50+0300] [ALPM] reinstalled glibc-locales (2.32-2)
[2021-11-17T11:54:18+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
[2021-11-17T11:59:40+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
[2021-11-17T12:06:05+0300] [ALPM] reinstalled glibc-locales (2.32-2)
[2021-11-17T12:30:04+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
[2021-11-17T14:17:11+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
[2021-11-18T23:22:22+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
[2021-11-18T23:24:20+0300] [ALPM] running '60-glibc-locales.hook'...
~/Desktop ❯
I do not remember what so many package reinstall was for, but OS was installed on a week before it:
~/Desktop ❯ head /var/log/pacman.log
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --noconfirm --cachedir /var/cache/pacman/pkg --config /opt/mhwd/pacman-mhwd.conf --root / --needed -Sy xf86-video-ati xf86-video-amdgpu xf86-video-intel xf86-video-nouveau vulkan-intel vulkan-radeon libva-mesa-driver libva-vdpau-driver mesa-vdpau lib32-vulkan-intel lib32-vulkan-radeon lib32-libva-vdpau-driver lib32-mesa-vdpau'
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [ALPM] transaction started
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [ALPM] installed xf86-video-ati (1:19.1.0-2)
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [ALPM] installed xf86-video-amdgpu (21.0.0-1)
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [ALPM] installed libxvmc (1.0.12-3)
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [ALPM] installed xf86-video-intel (1:2.99.917+916+g31486f40-1)
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> This driver now uses DRI3 as the default Direct Rendering
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Infrastructure. You can try falling back to DRI2 if you run
[2021-08-17T11:26:01+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] into trouble. To do so, save a file with the following
~/Desktop ❯
glibc-locales was added during Pinephone development and adopted to x64 also. With this you don’t have to bother with locales as you have all installed. Especially in Phosh and Gnome they are needed if you want to run the First-Run-Wizard and select languages.
I know what the issue is. Since locale-gen got replaced by glibc it doesn’t work. I’ve also to replace that to make it work when glibc-locales is installed.
@alven: Remove glibc-locales and maybe reinstall glibc after, you should be good to go.
EDIT: Or wait for glibc-locales 2.33-1 to land and try that.
OK I’ve fixed it. Will push it to all branches soon.
[phil@development phosh-project]$ sudo pacman -S glibc
[sudo] Passwort für phil:
Warnung: glibc-2.33-5 ist aktuell -- Reinstalliere
Abhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst …
Nach in Konflikt stehenden Paketen wird gesucht …
Pakete (1) glibc-2.33-5
Gesamtgröße der installierten Pakete: 46,01 MiB
Größendifferenz der Aktualisierung: 0,00 MiB
:: Installation fortsetzen? [J/n]
(1/1) Schlüssel im Schlüsselbund werden geprüft [######################] 100%
(1/1) Paket-Integrität wird überprüft [######################] 100%
(1/1) Paket-Dateien werden geladen [######################] 100%
(1/1) Auf Dateikonflikte wird geprüft [######################] 100%
(1/1) Verfügbarer Festplattenspeicher wird erm... [######################] 100%
:: Paketänderungen werden verarbeitet …
(1/1) Reinstalliert wird glibc [######################] 100%
Generating locales...
aa_ER.UTF-8@saaho... done
be_BY.UTF-8... done
de_DE.UTF-8... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
de_DE.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
:: Post-transaction-Hooks werden gestartet …
(1/8) Reloading system manager configuration...
(2/8) Creating temporary files...
(3/8) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(4/8) Restoring locales
(5/8) Restarting cronie for libc upgrade...
(6/8) Modifying 'locale-gen'
(7/8) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
foreign python-iniherit
(8/8) Updating the info directory file...
~/Desktop ❯ pacman -Qi glibc-locales | grep Require
Required By : None
~/Desktop ❯
Hm, then why I ever have the package?..
~/Desktop ❯ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
~/Desktop ❯ man locale
~/Desktop ❯ sudo pacman -Rsun glibc-locales
checking dependencies...
Package (1) Old Version Net Change
glibc-locales 2.32-2 -188.14 MiB
Total Removed Size: 188.14 MiB
:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing glibc-locales [####################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/2) Refreshing PackageKit...
~/Desktop ❯ sudo pacman -Scc
Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove ALL files from cache? [y/N] y
removing all files from cache...
Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
:: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n]
removing unused sync repositories...
~/Desktop ❯ sudo pacman -S glibc
warning: glibc-2.33-5 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
core/glibc 2.33-5 2.33-5 0.00 MiB 9.83 MiB
Total Download Size: 9.83 MiB
Total Installed Size: 46.01 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
glibc-2.33-5-x86_64 9.8 MiB 2.94 MiB/s 00:03 [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [####################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling glibc [####################################################################] 100%
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/6) Reloading system manager configuration...
(2/6) Creating temporary files...
(3/6) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(4/6) Restarting cronie for libc upgrade...
(5/6) Refreshing PackageKit...
(6/6) Updating the info directory file...
~/Desktop ❯ 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_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
~/Desktop ❯ man locale
man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
~/Desktop ❯
cscs, Mark, we were close. Now something not logged involved.
I saw Philip’s post above, did not tried it yet.
Because it was added to our ISO profiles at some point:
shared/Packages-Root:glibc-locales
community/openbox/Packages-Root:glibc-locales
Think more like this: if you update glibc and have all locale enabled it will take hours for the Pinephone to compile. And here is the run with an 8 core Server ARM CPU …
May be that’s the key phrase. May be a user needs to select a set of used locales? Oh, may be to leave ability to switch a user locale anytime, it needs all, I got it.
Then may be to split ARM scripts/profiles from x86-64?
PS
After that removal I lost my pill for cure 
:
~/Desktop ❯ sudo locale-gen
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
~/Desktop ❯ man locale
man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
~/Desktop ❯ 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_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
~/Desktop ❯
EDIT
Simple installation includes a pill inside of it’s actions:
~/Desktop ❯ sudo pacman -Syu glibc-locales
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community 6.7 MiB 1727 KiB/s 00:04 [####################################################################] 100%
multilib is up to date
kde-unstable is up to date
chaotic-aur 1619.4 KiB 1085 KiB/s 00:01 [####################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1) New Version Net Change Download Size
community/glibc-locales 2.32-2 188.14 MiB 10.73 MiB
Total Download Size: 10.73 MiB
Total Installed Size: 188.14 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
glibc-locales-2.32-2-x86_64 10.7 MiB 2.99 MiB/s 00:04 [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [####################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing glibc-locales [####################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/2) Refreshing PackageKit...
~/Desktop ❯ man locale
~/Desktop ❯ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
~/Desktop ❯
That’s why I suggested to reinstall glibc after removing glibc-locales so it will run it’s post_upgrade() commands.
Oh, duh. Sorry, missed that you did. So everything is fine now, right? 
Yeah, ok, we did it, now everybody can go home. Closing the thread with “fixed for me”/“I found the pill for me” 
Oh yeah? How are you planning on doing that? 
I miss @tbg
If to leave jokes away, we are awaiting Philip’s fix to be ready and pushed into unstable: I expect it will contain automated fix for all. That’s was the purpose of the thread.
BTW,
Did you mean “Mark Wagie it solved”? Previously I thought by template as “to mark it solved”.
It was done before he even posted:
:: Pulling changes...
obtaining remote repository packages...
remove community/x86_64/glibc-locales-2.32-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
create community/x86_64/glibc-locales-2.33-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
:: Branch is up-to-date now.
No, but that’s a good one. A valued member on our old forum had a Mark it Solved! badge he created.
EDIT: @cscs found it and above post edited.
OMG!
~/Desktop ❯ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
~/Desktop ❯ man locale
~/Desktop ❯ man whatis
~/Desktop ❯ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community 6.7 MiB 798 KiB/s 00:09 [####################################################################] 100%
multilib is up to date
kde-unstable is up to date
chaotic-aur 1619.4 KiB 1710 KiB/s 00:01 [####################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
community/glibc-locales 2.32-2 2.33-1 0.00 MiB 52.02 MiB
Total Download Size: 52.02 MiB
Total Installed Size: 188.14 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
glibc-locales-2.33-1-x86_64 52.0 MiB 1787 KiB/s 00:30 [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [####################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) upgrading glibc-locales [####################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/2) Refreshing PackageKit...
~/Desktop ❯ man whatis
~/Desktop ❯ man locale
~/Desktop ❯ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
~/Desktop ❯ sudo pacman -S glibc
warning: glibc-2.33-5 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1) Old Version New Version Net Change
core/glibc 2.33-5 2.33-5 0.00 MiB
Total Installed Size: 46.01 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [####################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [####################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling glibc [####################################################################] 100%
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/8) Reloading system manager configuration...
(2/8) Creating temporary files...
(3/8) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(4/8) Restoring locales
(5/8) Restarting cronie for libc upgrade...
(6/8) Refreshing PackageKit...
(7/8) Modifying 'locale-gen'
(8/8) Updating the info directory file...
~/Desktop ❯ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
~/Desktop ❯ man locale
~/Desktop ❯ man whatis
~/Desktop ❯
I do not know who Philip or Mark killed the issue, but that at-least-a-year-duration issue is dead now.
Please someone choose the right post which solved it.
THANK YOU!
You are someone. 
I simply fixed the hook …
I have related query: may be these fields
~/Desktop ❯ pacman -Qi glibc-locales | grep -iE "desc|optional for"
Description : None
Optional For : None
needs to be filled?
Optional For glibc, for example