[Bug 1280112] Re: Trivial errors (incorrect locale in my case) stops the OS from booting

[Steve Langasek]

This is not an upstart bug, it's a bug in the mountall upstart job.
When /etc/default/locale is broken to the point that it's unparseable by
the shell, the job will fail with an error like:

: 11: /etc/default/locale: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

To avoid these parse errors breaking the shell would require testing the
parseability in a subshell, which in turn requires mountall to be
switched to a different service readiness protocol.  So this is unlikely
to be fixed soon.

** Package changed: upstart (Ubuntu) => mountall (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  Trivial errors (incorrect locale in my case) stops the OS from booting

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I copied the following file [*] to /etc/default/locale and after
  rebooting I received the message

  init: mountall process terminated with status 2
  a maintenance shell will now be started
  ...

  when I enter mountall in the maintenance shell, the OS continued to
  boot

  I replaced the modified /etc/default/locale with the original version
  of the file and it solved problem

  
  /etc/default/locale [*]

  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="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"

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