Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Boot method: CD Image version: debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 2022-07-20
Machine: qemu VM (via libvirt) I installed Debian, choose "No localization" at the question and selected GNOME to be installed (or kept it selected). All other setting were left on the default. The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog is probably this: +--- | Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: Language = 'C' | Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: line=C;0;;C;en; | Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/language = 'en' | Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: Default locale = 'C' | Jul 20 09:38:15 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/consoledisplay = '' | Jul 20 09:38:15 debconf: Setting debconf/language to en | Jul 20 09:38:15 gtk-set-font: Switching to font 'DejaVu Sans' for 'en' | Jul 20 09:38:21 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/country = 'DE' | Jul 20 09:38:21 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale = 'C' | Jul 20 09:38:21 localechooser: info: System locale (debian-installer/locale) = 'C' +--- In the installed system, I can't do much as gnome-terminal does not start. It just shows the app-is-starting animation and then stops. In the journal I find error messages like: +--- | Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: Created slice app-org.gnome.Terminal.slice. | Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server... | Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] gnome-terminal-server[1915]: Non UTF-8 locale (ANSI_X3.4-1968) is not supported! | Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=8/n/a | Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. | Jul 20 11:58:53 [...] systemd[990]: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server. +--- Running `localectl set-locale C.UTF-8` as root made the system work. It would be good if choosing "No localization" would use "C.UTF-8" instead of "C" or there was at least an option for "C-UTF-8". I think I tried setting "C.UTF-8" via preseeding recently and that was rejected as an invalid choice (not 100% sure). Ansgar
