[Bug 1450025] Re: Unable to preseed language

[Daniel Dehennin]

I took the ubuntu-14.04.2-server-amd64.iso and follow the documentation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization and use the
preseed localisation from the documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/lts
/installation-guide/amd64/apbs04.html

I edited the preseed/ubuntu-server.seed to add the following:

# Preseeding only locale sets language, country and locale.
d-i debian-installer/locale string fr_FR.UTF-8

# The values can also be preseeded individually for greater flexibility.
d-i debian-installer/language string fr
d-i debian-installer/country string FR

# Keyboard selection.
# Disable automatic (interactive) keymap detection.
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string fr
# To select a variant of the selected layout (if you leave this out, the
# basic form of the layout will be used):
d-i keyboard-configuration/variantcode string oss

I build the custom ISO image and boot it in KVM and at reboot my
/etc/default/keyboard contains

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

The bug I found in localchooser is only responsible of printing a
message which should not be printed, so this fix is purely cosmetic.

Regards.

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Title:
  Unable to preseed language

Status in localechooser package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hello,

  I'm trying to preseed a 14.04.2 installation with hands-off[0] and
  found a bug in do_pressed[1].

  When looking up known languages[2] a $lang variable is used bug comes
  from nowhere (empty), I think it should be $ps_language.

  I started an installation, pause it (thanks hands-off) and add some
  set -x in some script to debug.

  Here are the logs from localechooser do_preseed line 162[3] to 179[4]:

  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + [ fr ]
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + [ fr ]
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + has_choice localechooser/languagelist
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + local RET template value
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + template=localechooser/languagelist
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + value=
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + [  ]
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + return 1
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + log Preseeded language ignored: unknown language code
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + logger -t localechooser info: Preseeded language ignored: unknown language code
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + [ FR ]
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + country_preseeded=1
  Apr 29 12:35:47 debconf: --> SETTITLE localechooser/title/language
  Apr 29 12:35:47 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + [ fr_FR.UTF-8 ]
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + grep -q ^fr_FR.UTF-8  /usr/share/localechooser/SUPPORTED
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + db_fset debian-installer/locale seen true
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + _db_cmd FSET debian-installer/locale seen true
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + IFS=  printf %s\n FSET debian-installer/locale seen true
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + IFS=
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954):  read -r _db_internal_line
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + RET=true
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + return 0

  
  This results in not using the preseeded language[5]:

  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + db_fget localechooser/languagelist seen
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + _db_cmd FGET localechooser/languagelist seen
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + IFS=  printf %s\n FGET local
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + IFS=
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954):  read -r _db_internal_line
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + 
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): RET=false
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + return 0
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + [ false = true ]
  Apr 29 12:35:47 main-menu[1595]: (process:31954): + PREVIOUS_LANGUAGE=

  
  [0] http://hands.com/d-i/

  [1] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  branches/ubuntu/trusty/localechooser/trusty-
  proposed/view/head:/localechooser#L148

  [2] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  branches/ubuntu/trusty/localechooser/trusty-
  proposed/view/head:/localechooser#L164

  [3] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  branches/ubuntu/trusty/localechooser/trusty-
  proposed/view/head:/localechooser#L162

  [4] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  branches/ubuntu/trusty/localechooser/trusty-
  proposed/view/head:/localechooser#L179

  [5] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  branches/ubuntu/trusty/localechooser/trusty-
  proposed/view/head:/localechooser#516

  Regards.

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