[Bug 1759003] Re: cloud-init fails for minimal images (can't find locale-gen)

[Francis Ginther]

** Tags added: id-5b21b1006874c4e4159dea3f

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Title:
  cloud-init fails for minimal images (can't find locale-gen)

Status in cloud-images:
  New
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Locale is not set for cloud images and minimal images lack the
  locale-gen executable.  This causes cloud-init to fail, however there
  is no need to call locale-gen if we set the locale.

   * Update minimal ubuntu-cpc images to set the locale to C.UTF-8 at
  build time.

  [Test Case]

   * Launch the minimal cloud image and observe locale failure in cloud
  init log (/var/log/cloud-init.log)

   * Launch the minimal cloud image built with the proposed change and
  observer that user does not get a warning about locales on the
  terminal and cloud init log (/var/log/cloud-init.log) does not contain
  locale failures (also 'systemctl list-units --failed' will not list a
  cloud-init failure)

  [Regression Potential]

   * There is no regression as this change is scoped to ubuntu-cpc
  minimal images only, which have not been announced.

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  Original description:

  Opening initially as a cloud-images bug to ensure that the lack of
  'locale-gen' is desired.  If so, then this should go to cloud-init to
  dtrt for minimal images.

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