Bug#1015749: installation-reports: installation w/o locale results in non-working GNOME Terminal
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 2022-07-20
Machine: qemu VM (via libvirt)
I installed Debian, choose "No localization" at the question and
selected GNOME to be installed (or kept it selected). All other setting
were left on the default.
The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog is probably this:
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| Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: Language = 'C'
| Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: line=C;0;;C;en;
| Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/language = 'en'
| Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: Default locale = 'C'
| Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/consoledisplay = ''
| Jul 20 09:38:15 debconf: Setting debconf/language to en
| Jul 20 09:38:15 gtk-set-font: Switching to font 'DejaVu Sans' for 'en'
| Jul 20 09:38:21 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/country = 'DE'
| Jul 20 09:38:21 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale = 'C'
| Jul 20 09:38:21 localechooser: info: System locale (debian-installer/locale) = 'C'
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In the installed system, I can't do much as gnome-terminal does not
start. It just shows the app-is-starting animation and then stops. In
the journal I find error messages like:
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| Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: Created slice app-org.gnome.Terminal.slice.
| Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server...
| Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] gnome-terminal-server[1915]: Non UTF-8 locale (ANSI_X3.4-1968) is not supported!
| Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=8/n/a
| Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
| Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server.
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Running `localectl set-locale C.UTF-8` as root made the system work.
It would be good if choosing "No localization" would use "C.UTF-8"
instead of "C" or there was at least an option for "C-UTF-8". I think I
tried setting "C.UTF-8" via preseeding recently and that was rejected
as an invalid choice (not 100% sure).
Ansgar
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