locale language only en_US

[hnsylzg]

archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso

[svartkanin]

Could you describe the problem a bit more?

[hnsylzg]

in archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso, locale language only has the en_US option, but multiple languages can be selected in archlinux-2023.08.01-x86_64.iso

[amonetlol]

Here is a preview of the options that appear.

When you type / , no option appears

[svartkanin]

Very interesting, I'll have a look

[svartkanin]

@amonetlol I'm unable to reproduce this

How do you run archinstall? Is it a special script?

[amonetlol]

@svartkanin

I don't do anything special, just set the keyboard layout. However, if I go directly to archinstall it has the same result.

I recorded a video

vmware-workstation: 17.0.2-2

[svartkanin]

Thanks for the video that was very helpful!
Unfortunately I still can't reproduce this 🤔
I did the exact same steps as in the video on a VM using the latest master and the current shipped version on the ISO but both seem to work fine.

The locale languages are populated from the file /etc/locale.gen could you have a look at this file and see what's inside?

[amonetlol]

@svartkanin

Found the problem. When the system is loading, some errors about cloud-init appear. This must be the reason for the generation of incomplete locale.gen

I manually inserted the pt_BR language in /etc/locale.gen and now it appears listed as an option.

[svartkanin]

Yep seems like cloud-init initialised it that way, not something archinstall can do about

[codefiles]

I considered this as a possible problem in my comment here #1423 (comment).

• Provide localedata/SUPPORTED as /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. Though the contents of the glibc localedata/SUPPORTED file is used to create /etc/locale.gen, it would be beneficial if it was also supplied separately as /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED since the contents of /etc/locale.gen can be overwritten as it is intended to be edited. It appears this file is being distributed in this manner with the glibc packages in other distributions such as Debian and Gentoo.

The file /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED is now provided with the glibc package. I will submit a fix for this that reads options from that file instead of /etc/locale.gen.