boxcutter/ubuntu

Language issues in box-cutter/ubuntu1604-desktop (virtualbox, 2.0.26)

clavecoder opened this issue · 4 comments

clavecoder commented

Could not start gnome-terminal without using dbus-launch. Would always get exit code 8. After many askubuntu machinations, paid $50 on guru.com to get the fix. Please add to the box image:

  1. sudo apt-get update
  2. sudo gnome-language-selector
  3. It's going to prompt you about being incomplete, click next and let it download/apply the locale data.
  4. Hit 'Apply System Wide' for good measure (probably unnecessary)
  5. Reboot
clavecoder commented

Looks like someone already has a PR for it: #100

dragon788 commented

Another quick fix for this is to edit /etc/default/locale and correct the two en_US references by adding .UTF-8 (need to edit as root and save and reboot).

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thisismydesign commented

Any update on this issue?

tknerr commented

Can confirm that setting the locale as suggested by @dragon788 fixes the issue (had it working by adding update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 somewhere in scripts/*.sh)

However, the combination of PR #100 (setting the locale to en_US.UTF-8) and PR #103 (passing that locale to VirtualBox and Parallels builders too) seems like the proper fix for me.

According to @richardxia's comment in PR #100 we should rather merge #103 and drop #100