Bug#939717: Failure to install tjener if the first username is not full ASCII

Hi David, hi all,

long time not addressed, but maybe today...

On  So 08 Sep 2019 05:27:51 CEST, David Prévot wrote:

> Package: debian-edu-config
> Version: 2.10.65
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> Providing non-ASCII characters in the first user name during d-i makes
> the installation fail to set up correctly ldap and thus breaks all
> usability of tjener (krb5, isc-dhcp and samba fail to start after the
> installation, GOsa is not set up, one can’t login with the initial
> credentials…).
>
> Looking at /var/log/installer/syslog, it looks like the
> ldap-debian-edu-install fails:
>
>> cf-agent[…]: CFEngine(agent)  Executing 'no timeout' ...  
>> '/usr/bin/ldap-debian-edu-install'
>> cf-agent[…]: CFEngine(agent)  Finished command related to promiser  
>> '/usr/bin/ldap-debian-edu-install' -- an error occurred, returned 1
>> cf-agent[…]: CFEngine(agent)  Q: "...du-install": iconv: illegal  
>> input sequence at position 1
>> cf-agent[…]: CFEngine(agent)  Last 1 quoted lines were generated by  
>> promiser '/usr/bin/ldap-debian-edu-install'
>> cf-agent[…]: CFEngine(agent)  Completed execution of  
>> '/usr/bin/ldap-debian-edu-install'
>
> (the not failing log split more than two hundred lines, the first ones
> starting with slapadd:).
>
> Reproducing is easy, just using e.g., “tété” as user full name (the
> preseed-like passwd/user-fullname string) makes a broken system.
>
> Regards
>
> David

I assume the problem is that the ldap-debian-edu-install script is run  
with LANG=C instead of LANG=C.UTF-8. Or maybe it is today (Debian  
13+), but was not so in Debian 10.

Let's see, one of my coworks will run some tests. See:  
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/merge_requests/52

Mike
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