RE: bookworm/sid: new interactive system locale setting on first boot

["Moessbauer, Felix" <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>]

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> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:52 PM
> To: Schild, Henning (T CED SES-DE) <henning.schild@siemens.com>; Kiszka, Jan
> (T CED) <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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> Subject: Re: bookworm/sid: new interactive system locale setting on first boot
> 
> On 13.10.22 14:50, Henning Schild wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in a totally different context i tried a nightly build of grml for
> > something. And that also started asking weird questions about locales.
> >
> > There is no issue in their github yet, and also not patch. But it
> > might be worth looking at how others deal with that. Maybe especially OE.
> >
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> > Henning
> 
> I ran into the same issue today.
> 
> Looks like systemd-firstboot asks for a selection if /etc/locale.conf [1] is not
> present.
> 
> We can fix this by creating the file with content LANG=${LOCALE_DEFAULT} in
> meta/classes/image-locales-extension.bbclass

If that works, it would be an easy fix.
I personally just disabled the service using the kernel cmdline, but that option might easily be misunderstood as to do not support the first-boot target.
As pointed out earlier by Florian, the switch "systemd.firstboot=off" only disables this locale setting service.

In the end, we need a solution as the boot simply hangs at the prompt - not very useful for an embedded system.

Felix

> 
> Do we want to go down that route or do we want to get rid of systemd-
> firstboot?
> 
> Tobias
> 
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> > Am Fri, 7 Oct 2022 15:25:13 +0200
> > schrieb Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> just installed a simple image (isar-cip-core) from a fresh sid of
> >> today and got this on first boot:
> >>
> >>
> >> Welcome to your new installation of Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid!
> >>
> >> Please configure your system!
> >>
> >> -- Press any key to proceed --[  OK  ] Finished Flush Journal to
> >> Persistent Storage. [  OK  ] Finished Load/Save Random Seed.
> >>           Starting Regenerate sshd host keys...
> >> [  OK  ] Finished Coldplug All udev Devices.
> >>           Starting Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown...
> >> [  OK  ] Finished Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown.
> >> [  OK  ] Finished Regenerate sshd host keys.
> >> l
> >> ‣ Please enter system locale name or number (empty to skip, "list" to
> >> list options): list 1) C.UTF-8                  2) en_US.UTF-8
> >>
> >>
> >> ‣ Please enter system locale name or number (empty to skip, "list" to
> >> list options):
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyone seens this already as well? What could be missing to
> >> preconfigure things as before?
> >>
> >> Jan
> >>
> >
> 
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