Description of problem: When $LANG is different than en_US.UTF-8 firstboot-tui crashes on startup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firstboot-1.4.35-1.fc7 firstboot-tui-1.4.35-1.fc7 How reproducible: ever Steps to Reproduce: 1. install from rawhide-20070517-i386-Live and choose different language in gdm 2. instead of runlevel 5 boot into runlevel 3 or from normal installation 1. init 3 2. rm -f /etc/sysconfig/firstboot 3. LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 firstboot Actual results: firstboot crashes Expected results: firstboot should work Additional info: If this is somehow related to rphl (bug #240787), with rhpl-0.207-1 it is also not working.
Created attachment 155359 [details] Screenshot from an installation in virtualbox
Oh, I've forgot to say: firstboot in gui mode runs fine with one exception: smolt-firstboot does not show any data. When I've written down the error message on tty2 I will open another bug for that.
(In reply to comment #2) > Oh, I've forgot to say: firstboot in gui mode runs fine with one exception: > smolt-firstboot does not show any data. When I've written down the error message > on tty2 I will open another bug for that. bug #241254 (In reply to comment #1) > Created an attachment (id=155359) [edit] > Screenshot from an installation in virtualbox additional note: running "firstboot" crashes immeadiatly. The screenshot shows the tty after the crash. You have to reset it with "reset".
Fixed with rhpl-208