vmbuilder crashed with VMBuilderException in run_cmd()

[Micah Gersten]

Trying to create a hardy vm running the following command using vm-tools in ubuntu-qa-tools:
vm-new hardy amd64 clean

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: python-vm-builder 0.12.4-0ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 24 12:04:58 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vmbuilder
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/vmbuilder qemu ubuntu --timezone=America/Chicago --suite=hardy --dest=/opt/vms/kvm/clean-hardy-amd64 --hostname=clean-hardy-amd64 --mirror=http://mirror.anl.gov/ubuntu --rootsize=5120 --swapsize=1024 --kernel-flavour=generic --components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --libvirt=qemu:///system --arch=amd64 --exec=/tmp/vm-new-setup-zEtmLg --ssh-key=/home/micah/.ssh/id_rsa.pub --user=micah --mem=512 --addpkg=lsb-release --security-mirror=http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu --debug
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/vmbuilder', 'qemu', 'ubuntu', '--timezone=America/Chicago', '--suite=hardy', '--dest=/opt/vms/kvm/clean-hardy-amd64', '--hostname=clean-hardy-amd64', '--mirror=http://mirror.anl.gov/ubuntu', '--rootsize=5120', '--swapsize=1024', '--kernel-flavour=generic', '--components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse', '--libvirt=qemu:///system', '--arch=amd64', '--exec=/tmp/vm-new-setup-zEtmLg', '--ssh-key=/home/micah/.ssh/id_rsa.pub', '--user=micah', '--mem=512', '--addpkg=lsb-release', '--security-mirror=http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu', '--debug']
SourcePackage: vm-builder
Title: vmbuilder crashed with VMBuilderException in run_cmd()
UserGroups:

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This looks to be because of this in VMBuilder/plugins/ubuntu/dapper.py:
def set_locale(self):
    lang = self.context.get_setting('lang')
    if lang:
        self.install_from_template('/etc/default/locale', 'locale', { 'lang' : lang })
        self.run_in_target('locale-gen', lang)
    ...

The version in natty does:
def set_locale(self):
    lang = self.context.get_setting('lang')
    if lang:
        self.install_from_template('/etc/default/locale', 'locale', { 'lang' : lang })
        if lang != "C":
            self.run_in_target('locale-gen', lang)
    ...

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I backported 0.12.4+bzr461 to maverick and everything seems to be working.
For the record, here's my output from locale:
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
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=en_US.UTF-8

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported