Bug#842324: console-setup: During apt-get dist-upgrade stage, console-setup did not finish cleanly under ja_JP.UTF-8 locale.
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.152
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i l10n
Justification: breaks the whole system
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" to upgrade to testing repository.
I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" after "su" ing to the superuser.
I am afraid that somehow LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 setting seeped into the
environment.
In that environment, during the execution of
console-setup, "iconv" failed due to illegal or invalid character
code or something like that. I am afraid that I failed to log the
operation successfully and so can't recall the exact message, but
the failure is due to "iconv", this is for sure.
I have experienced various "iconv" issues before, and
thus I changed LANG to LANG=C after seeing the failure and
ran "apt-get install console-setup" again, and this time
it succeeded and so the "apt-get dist-upgrade" as a whole
succeeded!
On a different PC, I set LANG=C before running apt-get
dist-upgrade, and found that it ran successfully the first time.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Simply ran "apt-get dist-upgrade", and found console-setup failed
due to the failure of "iconv" that was invoked during its
execution.
But setting LANG=C before running apt-get was the cure to solve
the problem.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Failure to run console-setup successfully.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
console-setup to run to completion successfully.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.152
ii debconf 1.5.59
ii keyboard-configuration 1.152
ii xkb-data 2.18-1
console-setup recommends no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.24-5
ii lsb-base 9.20161016
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.59
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-3+b1
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.45
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.8
ii kbd 2.0.3-2
ii keyboard-configuration 1.152
console-setup-linux suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn console-common <none>
pn console-data <none>
pn console-tools <none>
pn gnome-control-center <none>
ii kbd 2.0.3-2
ii systemd 231-9
-- debconf information:
* keyboard-configuration/model: A4Tech KB-21
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Japanese
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/use_system_font:
console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and
Turkic languages
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: jp
console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/layout:
console-setup/guess_font:
console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* keyboard-configuration/other:
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: jp
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: a4techKB21
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
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