Bug#950830: installation-reports: Preseeding language+country+locale not working in Buster
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Migration from Stretch to Buster has broken my fully automated VM creation
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Install Debian Buster with full preseeding
* What was the outcome of this action?
The installation stopped on country question
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The installation should finish without user interaction
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 07 Fed 2020 09:00
Machine: Virtual Machine (packer+qemu+kvm on amd64 Debian Buster)
Partitions: single virtual disk (qcow2, 32G)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Localization questions [E]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
I have tried many variants of preseeding the three localization
variables without success.
When I preseed any two, the third is asked for.
When preseeding all three, country is asked for.
Also the example (en,NL,en_GB.UTF-8) in
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs04.en.html#preseed-l10n
does not work.
I have also tried to using boot parameters preseeding with the same
results.
This has worked in stretch and also in buster-alpha5 and is broken at
least since 10.0, probably since some beta (I did not try them)
My desired values are:
d-i debian-installer/language string en
d-i debian-installer/country string CH
d-i debian-installer/fallbacklocale string en_US.UTF-8
These values are accepted when conviguring via gui (with or without
preseeding).
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Installer lsb-release:
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DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="10 (buster) - installer build 20190702+deb10u1"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (700, 'stable-updates'), (700, 'proposed-updates'), (700, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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