- Package:
- debian-edu-config
- Source:
- debian-edu-config
- Submitter:
- David Prévot
- Date:
- 2026-08-21 19:15:02 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
- Tags:
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: (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
Non-ASCII characters should be dropped instead of being properly
transliterated as initially designed if they are not recognised. This
should allow one to workaround installation issues as #939717.
---
ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install b/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
index 1b393a8f..df723d5d 100755
--- a/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
+++ b/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if db_get debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname && [ "$RET" ] ; then
FIRSTUSERGIVENNAME="$FIRSTUSERLASTNAME"
fi
# GECOS in LDAP must be ASCII (IA5String), convert to this
- FIRSTUSERGECOS="$(echo $RET | iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT)"
+ FIRSTUSERGECOS="$(echo $RET | iconv -ct ASCII//TRANSLIT)"
else
echo "error: no value in first-user-fullname, passing debconf values fail?" 1>&2
FIRSTUSERGECOS="LDAP initial admin user"
Hi David, Thanks for reporting the issue and providing a patch. I've checked the patch via running 'cf-agent -I -Dinstallation,di' on the main server. As far as I can tell, another change is needed to get a valid workaround: + FIRSTUSERGECOS="$(echo "$RET" | iconv -ct ASCII//TRANSLIT)" Please note that running 'ldap-debian-edu-install' via cf-agent (in finish_install) causes the problem. It doesn't show up if the tool is used directly; i.e running '/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/edu-ldap-from-scratch' I guess for a proper fix it would be needed to figure out how cf-agent is involved here. Wolfgang
Hi Wolfgang, Le 08/09/2019 à 07:39, Wolfgang Schweer a écrit : Thank you for checking and pointing a way to reproduce (I didn’t tag that bug as patch, as I wasn’t yet able to reproduce it outside d-i, just trying to find an easy workaround as a first debugging step). Thank you for narrowing down! nods (trying to find if it behaves as if the sting was seen as a non-UTF8 string in an UTF-8 environment maybe). Regards David
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/f66d732a7699f5e636950bc599ad3c8e2b4eee99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/ad6e94a7996b55a8aa05d73c07a67620069a8529 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hi David, hi all, long time not addressed, but maybe today... 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
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63575146e23880e0745326baf87a3fad7c54d200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63575146e23880e0745326baf87a3fad7c54d200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63575146e23880e0745326baf87a3fad7c54d200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63575146e23880e0745326baf87a3fad7c54d200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63575146e23880e0745326baf87a3fad7c54d200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63575146e23880e0745326baf87a3fad7c54d200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63575146e23880e0745326baf87a3fad7c54d200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717
Hello, Bug #939717 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63575146e23880e0745326baf87a3fad7c54d200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf are UTF-8 based. This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db. (Closes: #939717). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/939717