Subject: Re: bug#52831: [installer] Locale problems with nss-certs

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:11:21 -0500

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:02:45PM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> No, I just sent you a wrong version of my patch, sorry about
> that. LC_ALL needs to be set as an environment variable and with a
> setlocale call.
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> diff --git a/gnu/installer/utils.scm b/gnu/installer/utils.scm
> index bb97bc5560..24c16e7e12 100644
> --- a/gnu/installer/utils.scm
> +++ b/gnu/installer/utils.scm
> @@ -97,10 +97,13 @@ (define (pause)
>        ;; least give us translated messages.
>        (if supported?
>            (setenv "LC_ALL" locale)
> -          (setenv "LANGUAGE"
> -                  (string-take locale
> -                               (or (string-index locale #\_)
> -                                   (string-length locale)))))))
> +          (begin
> +            (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.utf8")
> +            (setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.utf8")
> +            (setenv "LANGUAGE"
> +                    (string-take locale
> +                                 (or (string-index locale #\_)
> +                                     (string-length locale))))))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks, that does fix the issue with installing nss-certs.

But, now the installer always crashes at the end, after initializing the
system on /mnt, when I "Press Enter to continue". A screenshot of the
error message is attached. I can't scroll down to view more of it.