Bug 5038

Summary:	Region selection not maintained during install
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Remco Rijnders <remco>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dvgevers, marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	(MGA2)
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Remco Rijnders 2012-03-21 08:45:09 CET

Description of problem:
The installer seems convinced I'm in the US, even when I tell it I'm not.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. At the language selection step, select "multiple languages", without touching anything else.
2. Select "English (British)", "Nederlands" as languages, deselect "English (US)" which is ticked by default.
3. The installation continues in English (not sure if it is British or not ;-)
4. Then selecting the timezone, it offers United States / New York as default. I correct it, and select Europe / Amsterdam.
5. Picking the region, it offers United States again. I would have liked it to suggest Netherlands based on my previous timezone selection. Not sure why it is defaulting to the US anyways when I selected English (British), or is that the default based on my US keyboard? Choosing another country does not show The Netherlands, (or France, or Germany, etc.) while oddly enough it does show places such as Pitcairn, Christmas Island, Denmark. There probably is some reason to this selection, but I'm not seeing it. I pick Netherlands after selecting to see all countries.
6. After finishing the installation and restarting, I want to configure my UMTS modem. Again it defaults to me being in the US.
7. I notice that for my wireless connection, the "Wireless regulatory domain" is set to US as well.

This might be a duplicate or variant of an existing report, but a quick search did not turn up any applicable results.

Comment 1 Remco Rijnders 2012-03-21 08:47:28 CET

Thierry, I've since reinstalled and picked only Dutch, which worked fine. If you require the /root/drakx/report.bug.gz for this issue, let me know and I'll repeat the process described above again. Thanks.

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:07:43 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2012-08-29 18:33:48 CEST

No reply, and if it was still valid with Mageia 2 final or current cauldron (boot.iso install), I would most probably have run into it.

Closing as OLD

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => OLD

Comment 4 Remco Rijnders 2012-08-29 18:46:36 CEST

Sorry for not responding before. This is still valid. Choose a multi language install and you'll see. (Happened to me last saturday as I was working on that other laptop I had with me, though not sure on the exact mix of languages I had going).

I think where it gets confused is when you want multiple languages at the install phase.

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: OLD => (none)

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-08-29 19:00:13 CEST

@ remmy

please attach your /root/drakx/report.bug.gz

Just having multiple languages can't be enough to create it. I often install 8-10 languages.

However, I'm one of the happy few with Dutch keyboards, maybe having a US keyboard is what confuses installer. You should buy a Dutch one, before they become extinct :Ã¾

Marja Van Waes 2012-08-29 19:01:23 CEST

Summary: 2_b2: Region selection not maintained during install => Region selection not maintained during install
Whiteboard: (none) => (MGA2)

Comment 6 Remco Rijnders 2012-08-29 19:23:32 CEST

I'm not touching that laptop anymore now I have X working properly on it... but I'll see if I can reproduce it on a VM and get the file.

Comment 7 Dick Gevers 2014-11-15 05:41:03 CET

Ping as 'needinfo' status since 2+ years?

CC: (none) => dvgevers

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2014-11-15 10:03:44 CET

(In reply to Remco Rijnders from comment #0)

> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. At the language selection step, select "multiple languages", without
> touching anything else.
> 2. Select "English (British)", "Nederlands" as languages, deselect "English
> (US)" which is ticked by default.
> 3. The installation continues in English (not sure if it is British or not
> ;-)

Sorry, Remco, only now do I see that I never read this report well enough /o\

The language installer uses and that will be used after reboot, is the one selected in the first language choice screen. Installer can't go on without language, and won't randomly pick one of the languages you selected, so if you deselect en_US in the multiple languages screen, then apparently it chooses to go on using it, either en_US because it is the default or because any language that would have been highlighted in the first screen would have been used despite deselection in the second screen.

See also http://doc.mageia.org/installer/4/en/content/selectLanguage.html

I do often select _all_ other languages and am very glad installer doesn't at random pick one of them, but that it uses the one I selected in the first screen :-)

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID