Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 19145
Anaconda dies on a mkkickstart generated ks file with lang set to en_GB
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:29:21 EDT
Having built a PC to the desired configuration (language english, keyboard UK) we run mkkickstart to generate a ks file which starts with lang en_GB booting a second identical PC anaconda gets the IP address and gets past mounting the install directory via NFS but then dies. The blue install screen scrolls staircased error messages off the top of the screen, the parts being visible are File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1088, in setClass todo.language.setByAbbrev(todo.instClass.language) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 254, in setByAbbrev self.set(self.abbrevMap[Lang]) KeyError: en_GB then you get install exited abnormally. and the usual shutting down signals repeating with lang=en_US will install ok. I'm assuming that then setting LANG="en_GB" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n will then switch it back, certainly I'm getting GBP signs in terminal windows etc when I do this.
I am assigning this to the mkkickstart component, and changing it to an enhancement request ... thanks for your report! unfortunately mkkickstart doesn't know that the language code en_GB is not supported by kickstart. From the kickstart portion of the Red Hat Linux reference guide: Valid languages codes are: cs_CZ, en_US, fr_FR, de_DE, hu_HU, is_IS, id_ID, it_IT, ja_JP.ujis, no_NO, pl_PL, ro_RO, sk_SK, sl_SI, es_MX, ru_RU.KOI8-R, uk_UA but mkkickstart didn't read the manual ... ;)