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console-setup package

[hardy] console-setup uses critical debconf questions if LANG=C

Bug #205959 reported by Brian Brazil
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
console-setup (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: console-setup

Related to bug #59883, console-setup is still asking critical questions. This breaks pretty much all automation that tries to
install ubuntu-minimal (i.e. everything).

Digging through debian/config.proto if LANG=C and you've got a bare install, you get asked multiple critical questions.

Workarounds:
1) Don't use LANG=C: bad idea, breaks other things subtlety
2) echo "ubiquity debian-installer/keymap string gb" | debconf-set-selections
     Ugh, hardcoding

At the least, please document a workaround in README.debian.
Preferably the critical questions would be downgraded (guessing "us" is acceptable - if
you're broken it's a reasonable bet that it's going to default to that anyway).

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I don't think your diagnosis is correct. console-setup asks the layout and variant questions at priority critical if it's being run outside d-i. This may be necessary to make upgrades from pre-console-setup systems work properly, but I'll drop the priority on fresh installs.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in console-setup:
assignee: nobody → kamion
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.21ubuntu5

---------------
console-setup (1.21ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=low

  * Silence error messages for keycodes 214, 215, 216, and 217, which are
    various special keys in the default X.org PC keyboard map that we don't
    need to handle.
  * Map dead_stroke to U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS.
  * Add a "Do not configure keyboard; keep kernel keymap" model option,
    preseedable by console-setup/modelcode=SKIP (LP: #59889).
  * Drop the layout/variant priority to high on fresh installs
    (LP: #205959).
  * Support rules with multiple consequents (thanks, Adam Simpkins;
    LP: #139710).
  * Allow specifying alternate rules using XKBRULES (thanks, Adam Simpkins;
    LP: #139712).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:33:25 +0100

Changed in console-setup:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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