From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: firstboot crashes either when I boot first time and when I run it from an xterm. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install (selcting french as the default language) 2. Reboot 3. Additional info:
Created attachment 97672 [details] The python stack when firstboot crashes
I used the configurator to change the language to US english, exited the session and restarted first boot from an xterm. It worked. So it is definitely a language problam.
Looks like a bad translation?
Yes, a bad translation. The funny thing is that firstboot fails on a different line here, 1670 instead of 2560, although we're probably running the same version (I'm running firstboot-1.3.3-3): (firstboot.py:1670): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string (firstboot.py:1670): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string Traceback (most recent call last): [...] File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/translate.py", line 202, in gettext return string.encode("UTF-8") UncidoeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 12-14: invalid data
fr.po was not UTF-8 encoded for some reason. I converted it and committed it to cvs. Should be fixed in firstboot-1.3.4-1. Thanks for your report.