Bug#219765: Languagechooser 1.03 dies on mipsel

[Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:38:09PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:

> > if echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8 ; then
> >   db_set debconf/language en
> > else
> >   db_set debconf/language C
> > fi
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The code actually goes:
> echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8
> if [ $? ] ; then
> ...

That was the original case, which also did not work. The code I cited
above is the current state in cvs.

> if this fails, try the variant
> if `echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8 ` ; then

Interestingly, this variant does not cause languagechooser to crash.
JoeyH, is it ok if I check this one-liner into the CVS? It makes d-i
on mipsel (at least partially, see below) usable and should not have
any negative impact on other architectures.

There is another problem with the language selection though. If I
select another language than US-English, the system hangs either
directly after the selection or when selecting the next menu item.
All this is on serial console with a CVS build from 2003/11/10,
architecture is mipsel. Can anybody confirm this behaviour for other
architectures?

Regards,
Karsten
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