Bug#308630: locales settings also screwed up
#include <hallo.h>
* Joey Hess [Wed, May 11 2005, 11:50:49PM]:
> Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > I have set the root passwort trough a serial console now and tried to
> > configure the system manualy. However, as one of the first packages,
> > locales has failed to install:
> >
> > en.ISO-8859-1...cannot open locale definition file `en': No such file or directory
>
> I'm seeing multiple hints in your bug report that you did not get
> a complete debian base system installed. The above indicates that
It run trough the whole base installation step without displaying any
error message, and the system seems to be up and running now, no missing
files (or missconfiguration) found so far except of this reported
problems with broken "en" locale and TERM problems.
> something is badly broken in the locales package; it seems locale-gen
> cannot find the locale definition files for english.
Ehm. AFAICS it is broken because "en" actually IS an invalid entry and
it has been seet by d-i. Try to pass it to locale-gen and it will
complain on a normal Sid system.
> > debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
>
> And the only reasons I can think of why you'd not get a TERM when you
> sshed in are 1) sshing w/o a teletype or 2) broken terminfo..
1) What is a teletype in this context? Any documentation?
2) As said, rxvt-unicode (TERM=rxvt), ssh-3.9.x and screen. During the
installation phase it has been working "as usual", with all dialog boxes
drawn correctly, etc.pp. I fail to see the reason for the failure when
starting base-config. Unfortnately it does not display any hint to guess
what was going wrong (read: meaningfull problem description, environment
variables or so).
The only thing that did not work w/ the terminal were the truncated
i18n'ed strings, cut after a non-ascii char.
Regards,
Eduard.
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