failure on "every" lxc installation because of locales

[rootgremlin]

i can not use most of the installations because near the end of the scripts it always fails with:

[ERROR] in line 48: exit code 1: while executing command sed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen

the verbose output of one failed attempt:

msg_info "Cleaning up"
$STD apt-get autoremove
$STD apt-get autoclean
msg_ok "Cleaned"'

• STD=
• '[' yes == yes ']'
• echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1'
• sysctl -p
  net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
  ++ echo '\033[33m'
• YW='\033[33m'
  ++ echo '\033[01;31m'
• RD='\033[01;31m'
  ++ echo '\033[36m'
• BL='\033[36m'
  ++ echo '\033[1;92m'
• GN='\033[1;92m'
  ++ echo '\033[m'
• CL='\033[m'
• RETRY_NUM=10
• RETRY_EVERY=3
• CM='\033[1;92m✓\033[m'
• CROSS='\033[01;31m✗\033[m'
• BFR='\r\033[K'
• HOLD=-
• set -Eeuo pipefail
• trap 'error_handler $LINENO "$BASH_COMMAND"' ERR
• msg_info 'Setting up Container OS'
• local 'msg=Setting up Container OS'
• echo -ne ' - \033[33mSetting up Container OS...'

• Setting up Container OS...+ sed -i '// s/(^# )//' /etc/locale.gen
  sed: -e expression Created VM not initialize #1, char 0: no previous regular expression
  ++ error_handler 47 'sed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen'
  ++ local exit_code=1
  ++ local line_number=47
  ++ local 'command=sed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen'
  ++ local 'error_message=\033[01;31m[ERROR]\033[m in line \033[01;31m47\033[m: exit code \033[01;31m1\033[m: while executing command \033[33msed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen\033[m'
  ++ echo -e '\n\033[01;31m[ERROR]\033[m in line \033[01;31m47\033[m: exit code \033[01;31m1\033[m: while executing command \033[33msed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen\033[m\n'

[ERROR] in line 47: exit code 1: while executing command sed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen

• exit

is there something wrong with my locales config on my proxmox host? at least i had no problem with it until now.

Yes the command sed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen also fails inside the newly created LXC because $LANG is empty.

Where should it get populated, or what do i have to set for the installer to pick my language up?

[tteck]

You can use the dpkg-reconfigure locales command to set the system locales.

[tteck]

If you are currently using SSH, I would suggest trying to use the Proxmox Shell instead to see if that resolves the issue.

[rootgremlin]

You can use the dpkg-reconfigure locales command to set the system locales.

i did!
i have the de_DE locales for my workstation(s) and en_US for servers.
Without "dpkg-reconfigure locales" a remote ssh session always complains about missing locales
example:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.

the problem is, how can i set it inside the "currently" LXC while it is in the process of beeing created?

that was the reason i asked

Yes the command sed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen also fails inside the newly created LXC because $LANG is empty.

Where should it get populated, or what do i have to set for the installer to pick my language up?

[rootgremlin]

If you are currently using SSH, I would suggest trying to use the Proxmox Shell instead to see if that resolves the issue.

I don's see how a "error free" (which it is) ssh session to the proxmox host can influence the $LANG variable beeing set while the "new" container is in the process of beeing created?

My Problem is, i don't see, where this line ( sed -i "/$LANG/ s/(^# )//" /etc/locale.gen) comes from, as searching in the script for $LANG did not yield any result

[tteck]

Have you tried running the command from the Proxmox Shell?

[rootgremlin]

Have you tried running the command from the Proxmox Shell?

yes i did which yielded the same result....

As i have found out, for whatever reason my $LANG environment variable is unpopulated. when i set the LANG to enything like with " export LANG=en_US " all is well end the setup-script finishes

[tteck]

The script gets its information from Proxmox when running the command from the shell.

[rootgremlin]

a few of the "old" environment variables:

env

SHELL=/bin/bash
LANGUAGE=
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty
LS_OPTIONS=--color=auto
LANG=
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
TERM=xterm-256color
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
_=/usr/bin/env

with the empty $LANG variable.

After setting it to "anything" non empty with:

export LANG=en_US

the script completed successfully

So thank you!!