Package: pkgsel Severity: important I went on this while running a home-built netboot image and targetting unstable. This bringed pkgsel after base-installer....and it failed.
>From syslog: Dec 20 09:36:12 main-menu[1830]: DEBUG: Menu item 'pkgsel' selected Dec 20 09:36:12 main-menu[1830]: DEBUG: configure pkgsel, status: 4 Dec 20 09:36:12 main-menu[1830]: DEBUG: configure debian-installer-utils, status: 0 Dec 20 09:36:12 main-menu[1830]: WARNING **: Unable to set title for pkgsel. Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: ^ILANGUAGE = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: ^ILC_ALL = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: ^ILANG = "C.UTF-8" Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: are supported and installed on your system. Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: ^ILANGUAGE = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: ^ILC_ALL = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: ^ILANG = "C.UTF-8" Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: are supported and installed on your system. Dec 20 09:36:15 pkgsel: perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Dec 20 09:36:16 debconf: Obsolete command TITLE Configuring called Dec 20 09:36:16 in-target: Unknown option: y Dec 20 09:36:16 in-target: Value "install" invalid for option from (number expected) Dec 20 09:36:17 debconf: Obsolete command TITLE Configuring called Dec 20 09:36:18 in-target: Unknown option: y Dec 20 09:36:18 in-target: Value "install" invalid for option from (number expected) Dec 20 09:36:19 debconf: Obsolete command TITLE Configuring called Dec 20 09:36:19 in-target: Unknown option: y Dec 20 09:36:19 in-target: Value "install" invalid for option from (number expected) Dec 20 09:36:23 debconf: Obsolete command TITLE Configuring called Dec 20 09:36:27 debconf: Obsolete command TITLE Configuring called Dec 20 09:36:27 in-target: Unknown option: without-recommends Dec 20 09:36:27 in-target: Unknown option: y Dec 20 09:36:30 in-target: tasksel: aptitude failed Dec 20 09:36:30 pkgsel: dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove read-edid which isn't installed. Dec 20 09:36:30 pkgsel: dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove mdetect which isn't installed. Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: ^ILANGUAGE = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: ^ILC_ALL = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: ^ILANG = "C.UTF-8" Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: are supported and installed on your system. Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: ^ILANGUAGE = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: ^ILC_ALL = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: ^ILANG = "C.UTF-8" Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: are supported and installed on your system. Dec 20 09:36:31 pkgsel: perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: (process:11512): perl: warning: Setting locale failed. Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: (process:11512): perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: (process:11512): ^ILANGUAGE = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: (process:11512): ^ILC_ALL = (unset), Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: (process:11512): ^ILANG = "C.UTF-8" Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: (process:11512): are supported and installed on your system. Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: (process:11512): perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 1 Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed. Dec 20 09:36:31 main-menu[1830]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for pkgsel I'm not completely sure now that the locale problem is the real problem or not, indeed...this is up to now only what I have in the logs -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-1-686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]