Bug#329175: lowmem: Low memory mode stills goes through the language selection screen

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

tags 329175 patch
thanks

Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle@debian.org):
> Package: lowmem
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> After the initial lowmem screen warning about the low memory mode, the
> language selection screen is still showed, allowing the user to choose
> another language.
> 
> Then, later in the install, the system loops and becomes unable to load
> modules early in the process while no swap space can be setup.
> 
> This was tested in a 32Mb VmWare virtual machine.

This seems to come from a wrong setting of the seen
flag. Localechooser logs that "Locale has been preseeded to seen true"..:-)

Proposed patch:

--- lowmem_debconf.old	2005-09-20 07:37:13.217435355 +0200
+++ lowmem_debconf	2005-09-20 07:37:33.844245207 +0200
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
 
 db_set debian-installer/framebuffer false || true
 db_set debian-installer/locale "en_US" || true
-db_set debian-installer/locale seen true
+db_fset debian-installer/locale seen true


While we're at it, I suggest preseeding the lcoale to "C" now.