Subject: bug#419: devuan-installer: locale and time zone aren't set on a freshly installed Beowulf system

From: g4sra <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 13:11:13 +0100

Confirming bug 419

Minimal install from CD-ROM devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_beta_i386_netinstall.iso on Pentium 4.
Selected SSH Server and base utilities only.

Possible relevant extract from installer/syslog

Apr  6 12:43:44 base-installer: Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom/
Apr  6 12:43:44 base-installer: Identifying...
Apr  6 12:43:44 base-installer: [b61e937f5c4e8975a35b74ec206026b6-2]
Apr  6 12:43:44 base-installer: Scanning disc for index files...
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Found 3 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 0 signatures
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Found label 'Devuan GNU/Linux 3.0 (beowulf) i386 - netinstall 20200313'
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: This disc is called:
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: 'Devuan GNU/Linux 3.0 (beowulf) i386 - netinstall 20200313'
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Copying package lists...
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: ^MReading Package Indexes... 0%^M
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: ^MReading Package Indexes... 0%^M
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: ^MReading Package Indexes... Done^M
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer:
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Writing new source list
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Source list entries for this disc are:
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 3.0 (beowulf) i386 - netinstall 20200313]/ beowulf contrib main non-free
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Repeat this process for the rest of the CDs in your set.
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Ign:1 cdrom://[Devuan GNU/Linux 3.0 (beowulf) i386 - netinstall 20200313] beowulf InRelease
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Err:2 cdrom://[Devuan GNU/Linux 3.0 (beowulf) i386 - netinstall 20200313] beowulf Release
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer:   Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Apr  6 12:43:45 base-installer: Reading package lists...
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target: Package locales is not available, but is referred to by another package.
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target: This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target: is only available from another source
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target: E
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target: :
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target: Package 'locales' has no installation candidate
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:46 localechooser: error: the command 'validlocale' is not available
Apr  6 12:43:46 tzsetup: Warning: ignoring invalid time zone 'Europe/London'
Apr  6 12:43:46 base-installer: dpkg-divert: warning: diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: locale:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: : No such file or directory
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: locale:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: : No such file or directory
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: locale:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: : No such file or directory
Apr  6 12:43:46 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:46 localechooser: error: the command 'validlocale' is not available
Apr  6 12:43:46 tzsetup: Warning: ignoring invalid time zone 'Europe/London'
Apr  6 12:43:46 base-installer: dpkg-divert: warning: diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: locale:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: : No such file or directory
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: locale:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: : No such file or directory
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: locale:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: : No such file or directory
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Reading package lists...
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: The following additional packages will be installed:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:   console-setup-linux keyboard-configuration xkb-data
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Suggested packages:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:   locales
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: The following NEW packages will be installed:
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target:   console-setup console-setup-linux kbd keyboard-configuration xkb-data
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: Need to get 0 B/3011 kB of archives.
Apr  6 12:43:47 in-target: After this operation, 12.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.