После неудачного использования localepurge слетели локали. В иксах и консоли не переключается раскладка, русский текст в иксах виден нормально, а в консоли - нет. locale-gen выдает:
* Generating 4 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs
* (1/4) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ...
character map file `en_US.UTF-8' not found: No such file or directory [ !! ]
* (2/4) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ...
character map file `ru_RU.UTF-8' not found: No such file or directory
cannot open locale definition file `UTF-8': No such file or directory [ !! ]
* (3/4) Generating ru_RU.UTF-8 ...
character map file `ru_RU.KOI8-R' not found: No such file or directory
cannot open locale definition file `UTF-8': No such file or directory [ !! ]
* (4/4) Generating ru_RU.KOI8-R ...
character map file `ru_RU.CP1251' not found: No such file or directory
cannot open locale definition file `KOI8-R': No such file or directory [ !! ]