In buster, it appears that specifying locale on the command line is not sufficient. Rather than adding more things to the command line, instead, just say `priority=critical', by defaulting $debconf_priority to 'critical'.
I think this change should be fine for earlier suites too. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> --- Osstest/Debian.pm | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Osstest/Debian.pm b/Osstest/Debian.pm index 345aff68..7b311a14 100644 --- a/Osstest/Debian.pm +++ b/Osstest/Debian.pm @@ -698,12 +698,10 @@ sub di_installcmdline_core ($$;@) { "$xopts{PreseedScheme}=$ps_url", "netcfg/dhcp_timeout=150", "netcfg/choose_interface=$netcfg_interface", - "debian-installer/locale=en_GB", ); - my $debconf_priority= $xopts{DebconfPriority}; - push @cl, "priority=$debconf_priority" - if defined $debconf_priority; + my $debconf_priority= $xopts{DebconfPriority} // 'critical'; + push @cl, "priority=$debconf_priority"; push @cl, "rescue/enable=true" if $xopts{RescueMode}; if ($r{syslog_server}) { -- 2.20.1