| michael_e_brown | 7.10 question: we need to have firstboot come up in Chinese for when we ship to a certain, nondisclosed, geographical area. Setting /etc/environment and /etc/defaults/locale seems to have no effect. Editing /etc/init.d/oem-config to source /etc/environment (to set LANG) seems to have no effect. | 17:41 |
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| BagOfMostlyWater | michael: i don't have experience w/this, but i'm willing to try. how are you doing the installations? are you using a custom cd? network install? | 18:10 |
| evand | michael_e_brown: you may want to email Colin directly on this. My guess would be that it will involve seeding languagechooser/language-name or debian-installer/locale, but having not written the OEM code, I'm not sure what the full proper solution is here. | 18:12 |
| michael_e_brown | evand, thanks. We tried setting debian-installer/locale, but that completely breaks our install | 19:17 |
| twb | michael_e_brown: how so? | 19:31 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, fails partitioning | 19:34 |
| twb | Are you seeding the partitioning steps at all? | 19:34 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, I saw a note somewhere that the preseed text must match exactly the GUI text | 19:34 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, sort of... just a sec. | 19:34 |
| michael_e_brown | d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition \ | 19:35 |
| michael_e_brown | select Guided - use the largest continuous free space | 19:35 |
| michael_e_brown | d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe \ | 19:35 |
| michael_e_brown | select All files in one partition (recommended for new users) | 19:35 |
| twb | Please use a pastebin | 19:35 |
| michael_e_brown | right. sorry. (thought 4 lines wouldnt be too objectionable...) | 19:35 |
| twb | Have you tried seeding just the locale, and not any of the partitioning stuff? | 19:35 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, didnt work last time I tried. | 19:35 |
| twb | OK. | 19:35 |
| michael_e_brown | brought up the part screen. | 19:35 |
| twb | re paste, np. I see 4 lines and aren't sure if that's all, or if there are another 98 coming | 19:35 |
| michael_e_brown | http://pastebin.com/m758c0d2e | 19:37 |
| michael_e_brown | ^--- the whole preseed file. | 19:37 |
| michael_e_brown | Requirement: we need firstboot to come up with chinese selected by default (and in chinese) | 19:37 |
| twb | You're seeding it to en_US there | 19:37 |
| michael_e_brown | If I change debian-installer/locale, the whole install breaks | 19:38 |
| twb | You change it to zh_CN? | 19:38 |
| michael_e_brown | if I change it to zh_CN, it breaks at partitioning. | 19:38 |
| twb | Oh yes, of course | 19:38 |
| twb | partition messages are localized | 19:38 |
| michael_e_brown | So, my idea was to just do install in english | 19:38 |
| twb | So if you change the default locale, you need to change those strings to chinese | 19:38 |
| michael_e_brown | (as that happens in our factory, that is ok) | 19:38 |
| michael_e_brown | and then just change system language in a post-install script | 19:39 |
| twb | Well, you could do that instead. | 19:39 |
| michael_e_brown | but that dont work, either. | 19:39 |
| michael_e_brown | firstboot comes up in english | 19:39 |
| michael_e_brown | I changed /etc/environment and /etc/defaults/locale to zh_CN and still comes up in english | 19:39 |
| twb | See this string: "Guided - use the largest continuous free space" | 19:39 |
| twb | You need to change that to whatever the zh_CN locale uses | 19:40 |
| twb | Similarly for "All files in one partition (recommended for new users)" | 19:40 |
| twb | Or try just commenting them out | 19:40 |
| michael_e_brown | problem being that there are 4 different strings like that... | 19:40 |
| twb | So change them all | 19:41 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, problem is that I dont know that would even fix firstboot | 19:41 |
| twb | For your second idea, to change the locale in the late command, you seem to have forgotten to install the zh locale package | 19:41 |
| twb | michael_e_brown: so TEST IT | 19:41 |
| michael_e_brown | d-i pkgsel/language-packs string en es fr de pt zh | 19:41 |
| twb | Oh sorry | 19:41 |
| twb | I've never seen that seed before | 19:42 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, I've been sitting here all day testing it... | 19:42 |
| michael_e_brown | and now I'm asking for some more help | 19:42 |
| twb | You said 06:41 <michael_e_brown> twb, problem is that I dont know that would even fix firstboot | 19:42 |
| twb | So my suggestion is to find out | 19:42 |
| michael_e_brown | so: from what I can tell, changing the language only changes /etc/environment and /etc/defaults/locale | 19:43 |
| BagOfMostlyWater | michael: have you tried configuring your locale entirely using debconf after an install, verifying that it works, and then dumping via debconf-get-selections to see what is required for preseeding? | 19:53 |
| twb | BagOfMostlyWater: that would discard the d-i seeds, wouldn't it? | 19:53 |
| twb | IIRC there's some other magic command for those | 19:54 |
| michael_e_brown | BagOfMostlyWater, that is a useful suggestion. | 19:55 |
| michael_e_brown | BagOfMostlyWater, I'm trying to reinstall now using spanish ( since I can at least speak that ) | 19:55 |
| michael_e_brown | I want to see if doing the install in spanish will cause firstboot to come up in spanish | 19:56 |
| BagOfMostlyWater | thats beyond me i'm afraid. i wonder where debconf-get-selections and debconf-get-selections --installer overlap. | 19:56 |
| BagOfMostlyWater | by 'discard the d-i seeds' do you mean the preseeds wouldn't be owned by d-i? | 19:56 |
| michael_e_brown | the main problem so far is that firstboot doesnt appear to honor the "normal" language selection in /etc | 19:56 |
| twb | michael_e_brown: ah, I just assumed you spoke zh. | 20:01 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, no, I dont. | 20:01 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, which makes it exceedingly difficult to test | 20:01 |
| twb | That makes sense now | 20:01 |
| michael_e_brown | so... | 21:31 |
| michael_e_brown | doing an install completely in spanish does not cause firstboot to come up in spanish | 21:32 |
| michael_e_brown | doh. | 21:32 |
| michael_e_brown | cjwatson_, ping | 21:32 |
| michael_e_brown | did an install in spanish and firstboot still comes up in english | 21:33 |
| michael_e_brown | funny: | 21:34 |
| michael_e_brown | did an install in spanish with spanish keyboard setting | 21:34 |
| michael_e_brown | and firstboot *does* keep that. | 21:34 |
| michael_e_brown | twb, doesnt look like your suggestion panned out. So, I am back to square one. | 21:46 |
| evand | michael_e_brown: he's on vacation until Tuesday I think, thus my email suggestion. If this is pressing I can try to figure out a solution over the weekend for you. | 21:58 |
| michael_e_brown | evand, it is not an emergency, but Tuesday is a ways off... | 21:59 |
| michael_e_brown | evand, looks to me like the code doesnt ever initialize the language setting until you click a language | 21:59 |
| michael_e_brown | evand, *just* finished a re-install so I can look at the firstboot code fresh | 21:59 |
| michael_e_brown | I'll send an email. I dont need you to work on the weekend on this. | 22:00 |
| evand | michael_e_brown: ok, an email would be much appreciated, and I'll give it a shot on Monday then. Enjoy your weekend. | 22:01 |
| michael_e_brown | composing now... thx | 22:01 |
| michael_e_brown | evand, did you get my email? It bounced from cjwatson_'s address... | 22:38 |
| evand | michael_e_brown: yes, I did and odd. Perhaps trying cjwatson at ubuntu.com and colin.watson at canonical.com might get it through. | 22:57 |
| evand | my understanding is that the nicknames carry over both domains, though, so I'm not sure why the address you used wouldn't work. | 22:58 |
| michael_e_brown | evand: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/50780/ | 23:29 |
| michael_e_brown | evand, email to colin still not working --^ | 23:29 |
| michael_e_brown | could you kindly forward? | 23:29 |
| michael_e_brown | leaving in a couple mins. have a good weekend. | 23:30 |
| michael_e_brown | evand, I also just got word that this is a bit more urgent, as we were supposed to exit devel today, but that is more my bad than your problem because I somehow missed the dates. :( | 23:37 |
| * michael_e_brown isnt going home as soon as he thought... | 23:37 | |
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