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

["Schaffner, Tobias" <tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>]

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.
> 
> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdaily.grml.org%2Fgrml64-full_testing%2F2022-10-13_05-29-27%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ctobias.schaffner%40siemens.com%7C892055cedb0f4d51003208daad198a4e%7C38ae3bcd95794fd4addab42e1495d55a%7C1%7C0%7C638012622458460393%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kT6UFfopXdw2Zx9ZsdUzA4SJ8l2zb8zw2qTG4JoxVow%3D&reserved=0
> 
> 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

Do we want to go down that route or do we want to get rid of 
systemd-firstboot?

Tobias

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/locale.conf.5.html

> 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
>>
>