Hi Tim,

Can you try installing the en_GB.utf8 locale? For unicode support, the default locale is set to en_US.utf8 unless you define the LC_ALL to be some other locale with UTF8 support.

On Debian/Ubuntu distributions that locale seems to only work if en_GB.utf8 is also available.

You can check what locales are available by typing

locale -a

If en_US.utf-8 and en_GB.utf-8 are not available, you can install the locales with the instructions here

https://wiki.debian.org/Locale
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale#A.28Re-.29Generating_locales

Basically, if those two locales are not available, you can run

sudo locale-gen en_US.utf8
sudo locale-gen en_GB.utf8
sudo update-locale

The last line may not be needed.

Let me know if it's still not working.

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On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:49 AM Tim Gruene <tim.gruene@univie.ac.at> wrote:
Dear all,

I installed phenix 1.19.2.4158 on Debian testing (version 11.0) and
Debian stable (version 10.10).

On Debian stable, phenix works just fine.
On Debian stable (kernel 5.10.0-7-amd64), when I type 'phenix' at the
command prompt, I get the usually error about the locale 'en_GB' not
being available, and the Phenix splash screen, that disappears
automatically. After that, nothing happens. The prompt does not return,
phenix is running
tg@fibonacci:~$ ps -eLF | grep phenix
tg          3823    3776    3823  0    1 33859 83056   6 09:36 pts/1
00:00:00
/xtal/Suites/Phenix/phenix-1.19.2-4158/build/../conda_base/bin/python2.7
-Qnew
/xtal/Suites/Phenix/phenix-1.19.2-4158/build/../modules/phenix/wxGUI2/command_line/main.py

but no GUI shows up.

I can use phenix through ssh on stable, so that this is not an urgent
issue. I was just wondering if anyone might have a clue why phenix GUI
won't show up on Debian testing? I tried two window managers, KDE and
awesomewm on two different computers.

Best wishes,
Tim

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