Devuan bug report logs - #454
devuan-installer: beowulf beta netinstall ISO image does not configure locale or timezone

Package: devuan-installer; Reported by: Matthew T Hoare <[email protected]>; Done: Ralph Ronnquist <[email protected]>; Maintainer for devuan-installer is (unknown).

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Confirmed as fixed for upcoming ISOs (Beowulf 3.1)

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bug acknowledged by developer. Full text available.
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Subject: devuan-installer: beowulf beta netinstall ISO image does not configure locale or timezone
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Package: devuan-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
I downloaded the Devuan beowulf beta netinstall ISO image and attempted to install a system under QEMU/KVM (Debian buster host).

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I selected the English language, UK location and the Europe/London timezone during the installation process.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
When I booted into the new system the locale & timezone were not set: /etc/locale.gen had no un-commented lines and the timezone was set to 'Etc/UTC'.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I would expect that the locale would be set to the UK and the timezone would be set to Europe/London. The errors resulting from an unset locale can be seen below.


-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Release:	3
Codename:	beowulf
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=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
UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=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
UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Acknowledgement sent to Matthew T Hoare <[email protected]>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to [email protected], Ralph Ronnquist <[email protected]>. Full text available.
Report forwarded to [email protected], [email protected], Ralph Ronnquist <[email protected]>:
bug#454; Package devuan-installer. Full text available.

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