Bug#842324: console-setup: During apt-get dist-upgrade stage, console-setup did not finish cleanly under ja_JP.UTF-8 locale.

["ISHIKAWA,chiaki" <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp>]

On 2016/11/06 1:12, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 02:44:13PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > in particular if the error in is `iconv` that program is part of
> > libc-bin so this bug should be reassigned to that pkg.
>
> Yes, the bug belongs to libc-bin.  Unfortunately, I was unable to
> reproduce the bug on my computer, so I won't be able to provide any
> useful data to the libc-bin maintainers.  Therefore, I suppose it won't
> do any good if I reassign the bug (but I can be wrong).
>
> > I'll let the console-setup maint decide what to do of course, just
> > posting my quick check on this RC bug.
>
> I've commited a change that will make console-setup use untranslated
> keyboard names in case of failed iconv.  This should fix the bug in
> console-setup.  Of course, when we have more data or something
> reproducible we can submit a bug against libc-bin.
>
> Anton Zinoviev

I wish I could add more data point, but
iconv did fail on that particular PC I tested and LANG=C
cured the problem.

Let me look out if another iconv issue pops up on two PCs I use heavily.

TIA