It's clear that PG has a packaging bug, it should not hang the postinst script because of an invalid locale. That bug ought to be triaged and this can be a dupe of it.
@Robie Yes I see a /etc/profile.d/Z99-cloud-locale-test.sh but not the skip file. I can recreate this trivially with new canonistack instances: ed@beast:~$ echo $LC_TIME en_GB.utf8 ed@beast:~$ ssh 10.55.60.195 The authenticity of host '10.55.60.195 (<no hostip for proxy command>)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is 42:7b:4f:79:b2:2c:95:d7:ce:32:90:d4:c5:6c:f3:3f. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added '10.55.60.195' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-43-virtual x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ ... [snip] ... ubuntu@server-72566baa-6d58-40c5-a382-0fef613e7256:~$ echo $LC_TIME en_GB.utf8 ubuntu@server-72566baa-6d58-40c5-a382-0fef613e7256:~$ locale locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= ubuntu@server-72566baa-6d58-40c5-a382-0fef613e7256:~$ cat ~/.cloud-locale-test.skip cat: /home/ubuntu/.cloud-locale-test.skip: No such file or directory ubuntu@server-72566baa-6d58-40c5-a382-0fef613e7256:~$ ls /etc/profile.d/Z99-cloud-locale-test.sh /etc/profile.d/Z99-cloud-locale-test.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1134036 Title: Failure when using ssh with a locale that is not configured on the server To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1134036/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
