** Description changed: To reproduce: Proceed through a normal installation from an Ubuntu ISO (here I was trying today's cosmic daily 20181012). Pick an English (UK) keyboard layout and click on the UK when you see the location map. Reboot into the installed system, open a terminal and run `check- - language-support`. + language-support`. You'll see that -en-gb packages have been removed. + From ubiquity: + + Oct 12 15:52:16 ubuntu ubiquity[9934]: Removing libreoffice-l10n-en-gb + (1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1) ... + + The installer is supposed to keep these packages, as a result of running + `check-language-support -l en_GB --show-installed`. The problem is that + the code that is supposed to find en_GB doesn't: + + Oct 12 15:48:40 ubuntu localechooser[9037]: info: debian-installer/locale preseeded to 'en_GB.UTF-8' (seen: true) + Oct 12 15:48:40 ubuntu localechooser[9044]: info: Language = 'en' + Oct 12 15:48:40 ubuntu localechooser[9047]: info: line=en;0;US;en_US.UTF-8;;console-setup + Oct 12 15:48:40 ubuntu localechooser[9048]: info: Set debian-installer/language = 'en' + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu localechooser[9049]: info: Default country = 'US' + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu localechooser[9050]: info: Default locale = 'en_US.UTF-8' + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu localechooser[9051]: info: Set debian-installer/consoledisplay = 'console-setup' + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu localechooser[9060]: info: Set debian-installer/country = 'GB' + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu localechooser[9218]: info: Set debian-installer/locale = 'en_GB.UTF-8' + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu localechooser[9229]: info: System locale (debian-installer/locale) = 'en_GB.UTF-8' + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu localechooser[9236]: info: Set debian-installer/language = 'en_GB:en' + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4546]: debconffilter_done: ubi-timezone (current: ubi-timezone) + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4546]: Step_before = stepLocation + Oct 12 15:48:41 ubuntu ubiquity[4546]: switched to page usersetup + 28520k swap on /target/swapfile. Priority:-2 extents:3 across:744904k FS + Oct 12 15:48:42 ubuntu ubiquity[8547]: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[63593]) leaked on pvs invocation. Parent PID 9406: /bin/sh + Oct 12 15:48:42 ubuntu ubiquity[4546]: debconffilter_done: ubiquity.components.partman_commit (current: ubi-usersetup) + Oct 12 15:48:42 ubuntu /install.py[9568]: keeping packages due to preseeding: icedtea6-plugin openoffice.org + Oct 12 15:48:42 ubuntu /install.py[9568]: keeping language packs for: en_US.UTF-8 + + See that we set debian-installer/locale to "en_GB.UTF-8", but later on + we had forgotten this. + + I think it's because the debconf database used in + select_language_packs() (instansiated in scripts/install.py) doesn't + know about this update. If I modify ubiquity according to the attached + patch, install.py sees the right value but then it crashes due to a + broken pipe. I don't know how to fix that - help would be appreciated + there please on the best way to achieve this.
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