Alternate installer always fails in CJK mode

[Jun Kobayashi]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

Version-Release number:
Ubuntu 7.04 Alternate Install CD (Build on 2007-04-02)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot PC with Ubuntu 7.04 Alternate install CD.
2. Type F2 and select '日本語' (which means 'Japanese') on isolinux menu.
3. Press Enter key on 'テキストモードでインストール' ('Install in text mode' in English).
4. Ubuntu Installer menu comes up.
5. Select 'No toggling' and press Enter.
6. Red screen appears, and installer report 'インストールステップが失敗しました'('An installation step failed'), but no failing step is listed on screen.
7. Press enter and corrupted screen occurs.

Additionally, select Chinese or Korean on isolinux menu and the same failure breaks out.

Hardware Information:
Dell INSPIRON 710m
QEMU on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty
VMware Server on Windows XP

This problem is reproducible on these 3 environment.

[Jun Kobayashi (jkbys)]

console-setup-udeb failure logged in /var/log/syslog.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Milestone; assign to Colin.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 84401, and should be fixed with the next debian-installer initrd rebuild.