Public bug reported: hi,
i tried to PXE boot Ubuntu 20.10 Live from ubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.iso (2020-10-22 14:31) but i have issues with setting the locale by using bootoptions. using the following additional boot options to setup locale and keyboard layout: debian-installer/language=de console-setup/layoutcode=de keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=de keyboard-configuration/variant=German here the full pxe boot entries: KERNEL http://192.168.1.1/srv/nfs/ubuntu-x64/casper/vmlinuz INITRD http://192.168.1.1/srv/nfs/ubuntu-x64/casper/initrd APPEND nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/srv/nfs/ubuntu-x64 ro netboot=nfs ip=dhcp file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper -- debian-installer/language=de console-setup/layoutcode=de keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=de keyboard-configuration/variant=German after sucessfull PXE boot into Ubuntu 20.10 Live, the locale is set to aa_DJ.UTF-8 LANG=aa_DJ.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_TIME="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_NAME="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="aa_DJ.UTF-8" LC_ALL= but the locale sould be set to de_DE.UTF-8 as expected (and as it was with ubuntu 20.04): LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= it was not an issue with Ubuntu 20.04 Live when i left out the boot options for locale settings at booting 20.10, the resulting locale is set to C.UTF-8 LANG=C.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8" LC_TIME="C.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="C.UTF-8" LC_NAME="C.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="C.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="C.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF-8" LC_ALL= here the PXE server project i used: https://github.com/beta-tester/RPi- PXE-Server i think this is a bug. when looking to the casper.log, i can see the folowing lines: + '[' -e /conf/param.conf ] + /scripts/casper-bottom/14locales Begin: Setting up locales... ... grep: /root/usr/share/localechooser/languagelist: No such file or directory Generating locales (this might take a while)... aa_DJ.UTF-8... done Generation complete. done. looks like there is something missing. ** Affects: casper (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1906190 Title: Ubuntu 20.10 Live, locale set to aa_DJ, when bootoption tells to setup to locale de_DE To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1906190/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
