Greetings. cross-install does not work properly if the locale is different than C, because it considers every non-english dpkg message as "unusual", and it fails.
Either LANG=C (or LC_ALL=C) is added to cross-install, or else it should not consider unusual messages as a fatal error. Note: This is the reason boot/servers.boot.dpkg-new was not renamed to boot/servers.boot last time I used cross-install. The reason I did not notice there was indeed an error is that the unsual messages list was so large that I missed the initial lines: ERROR: dpkg did return unusual messages, please investigate: INSTALLATION ABORTED! Thanks.
