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

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 24/08/2021 12:07, Oguz Bektas wrote:
> 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");
> +

really should not be done if the file already exists/contains options though?
Else you potentially override customized templates, which is not nice.

>      # always call so root can login, if /etc/securetty doesn't exists it's a no-op
>      $self->setup_securetty($conf);
>  }
>