* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-03 19:42]:
> before showing the "Choose Language" menu I see the following messages
> on the screen:
>
> E: Unimplemented function
> E: Unimplemented function
> E: Unimplemented function
> E: Unimplemented function
I've tracked this down now. The problem is the new order in which
programs are called. When I boot my machine, I run through the
following:
- Choose a mirror of the Debian archive: Austria
- Loading additional components
- Setting up clock, which calls tzsetup
- Choose language (localechooser)
Now, the problem here is that tzsetup requires
debian-installer/country, which is empty at that point.
debian-installer/country only gets set during localechooser which is
called right after tzsetup.
In fact, there's another bug, which shows up because of this: tzsetup
obtains debian-installer/country from debconf. In my case, this is
empty. Then it does:
zone=$(grep "^$CC" /usr/share/tzsetup/tzmap | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
db_set time/zone "$zone"
Since $CC is empty, $zone contains the whole /usr/share/tzsetup/tzmap
file. Apparently, db_set doesn't deal with this, and prints "E:
Unimplemented function". I consider this a bug in debconf, especially
given that it (apparently) completely breaks the debconf database.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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