[pve-devel] [PATCH container] setup/centos: set /etc/locale.conf to avoid systemd-firstboot hanging

[Oguz Bektas]

we can set the locale to a sane default to avoid the issue described in
forum post [0]

[0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/centos-lxc-containers-require-a-reboot.94972/

Signed-off-by: Oguz Bektas <o.bektas at proxmox.com>
---
 src/PVE/LXC/Setup/CentOS.pm | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC/Setup/CentOS.pm b/src/PVE/LXC/Setup/CentOS.pm
index 77eb6f7..fa8f862 100644
--- a/src/PVE/LXC/Setup/CentOS.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/LXC/Setup/CentOS.pm
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ sub template_fixup {
 	$data =~ s!^(/sbin/start_udev.*)$!#$1!gm;
 	$self->ct_file_set_contents($filename, $data);
     }
+
+    # temporary fix for systemd-firstboot
+    $self->ct_file_set_contents('/etc/locale.conf', "LANG=C.utf8");
+
     # always call so root can login, if /etc/securetty doesn't exists it's a no-op
     $self->setup_securetty($conf);
 }
-- 
2.30.2