Christian Perrier wrote: > This bug may be reproduced on any sid_d-i ISO image. > > When choosing Arabic as language, the screen flickers instead of displaying > countrychooser first screen. Then this screen is displayed, however it is > displayed in English. > > Tracking down this bug, I found that countrychooser postinst fails at the db_go call > in the state machine: > > if db_go; then > STATE=$(($STATE + 1)) > > This makes the debian-installer script fail...It is then restarted by init, > but the environment then lacks the LANG variable, so countrychooser postinst > is displayed in English and the whole installer then continues in English. > > This seems related to the display of the Arabic screen, with country names > in Arabic. > > This does not happen in RC1....in which the country names were not > translated to Arabic because of incomplete iso-codes translation. > > I suspect some nasty thing related to Arabic display in these conditions but > I have no idea how to track this down. This sounds similar to the also unexplained #256405. -- see shy jo
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