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Bug#1101196: installation-reports: Trixie Installer fails to create first user when full name contains non-ASCII characters and spaces



On 04/05/2025 at 10:58, Marc Haber wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 2025 at 10:31:46AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
My initial tests indicate that for this regex to work as expected,
- libperl5.40 must be installed in the target system but is not part of the base system so may not be installed depending on task selection. - LANG must be set to an installed UTF-8 locale but user-setup-apply overrides the default LANG=C.UTF8 with "export LANG=C # avoid locale errors from perl".

Additional information:
- I did not see "locale errors from perl" after commenting out this line to make adduser accept non-ASCII full name. Maybe this issue does not exist any more. - libperl5.40 is installed with perl if "Standard system utilities" is selected. - If one chooses "Language: C", then the default locale in the installed system will be plain "C", not "C.UTF-8", so when booting the installed system, adduser will reject non-ASCII in the full name. Shouldn't the installer set "C.UTF-8" instead ? I observe that "dpkg-reconfigure locales" does not offer plain "C", only UTF-8 locales.

Okay, so that is not an acceptable fix that can go quickly into trixie.

I'd need a suggestion for a simpler regexp that will work without libperl, that would be a short-term solution for trixie to fix the immediate pain.

Any perl/regex/locale expert around ?

Post-trixie, I'd like to have adduser use two regexps conditionally depending on whether libperl is installed.

PS: During my tests I found out that deluser fails with an error about File:Find if perl-modules is not installed (not part of the base system either).

That should not happen. Can you give a reproducer?

During installation of a new system, de-select "Standard system utilities" and any other tasks which might pull perl.
Or remove perl-modules from an installed system.
Run deluser <dummy_user>.


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