Cannot install Ubuntu 16.04 when selecting Chinese language

Bug #1606031 reported by Tao Wang
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Bug Description

If select the "Chinese" (Neither Traditional or Simplified Chinese are working) when booting the Ubuntu 16.04 ISO, and follow the guide with all default settings, after the partitioning the disk, there will be an error stopped installation.

The screenshot is attached.

To help the Chinese on the screenshot, title said `Cannot install busybox-initramfs`, and the contents basically said "There was an error during install busybox-initramfs to the target system."

The last part of the `syslog` are:

```log
Jul 24 16:34:48 in-target: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Jul 24 16:34:49 localechooser: Generating locales (this might take a while)...
Jul 24 16:34:49 localechooser: zh_CN.GB2312
Jul 24 16:34:49 localechooser: ...
Jul 24 16:34:49 localechooser: done
Jul 24 16:34:49 localechooser: Generation complete.
Jul 24 16:34:49 localechooser: Generating locales (this might take a while)...
Jul 24 16:34:49 localechooser: en_US.UTF-8
Jul 24 16:34:49 localechooser: ...
Jul 24 16:34:50 localechooser: done
Jul 24 16:34:50 localechooser: Generation complete.
Jul 24 16:34:51 live-installer: Unsupported charmap GB2312
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: warning: /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/25live-installer-console-setup returned error code 1
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-generic usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-generic usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-virtual usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-image-generic usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-generic usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-virtual usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-image-4.4.0-21-generic usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic usable on amd64
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: Found kernels 'linux-signed-generic,linux-generic,linux-virtual,linux-signed-image-generic,linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic,linux-image-generic,linux-image-virtual,linux-signed-image-4.4.0-21-generic,linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic'
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: arch_kernel candidates: linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-server linux-image-server linux-virtual linux-image-virtual linux-xen linux-image-xen linux-preempt linux-image-preempt linux-rt linux-image-rt
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: arch_kernel: linux-generic (present)
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: Using kernel 'linux-generic'
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: warning: Failed to get debconf answer 'base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd'.
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: Setting do_initrd='yes'.
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: info: Setting link_in_boot='no'.
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: apt-install or in-target is already running, so you cannot run either of
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: them again until the other instance finishes. You may be able to use
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: 'chroot /target ...' instead.
Jul 24 16:34:51 in-target: Unexpected error; command not executed: 'sh -c debconf-apt-progress --no-progress --logstderr -- apt-get -q -y --no-remove install busybox-initramfs'
Jul 24 16:34:51 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/failed-package-install
Jul 24 16:35:21 main-menu[252]: WARNING **: Configuring 'live-installer' failed with error code 30
Jul 24 16:35:21 main-menu[252]: WARNING **: Menu item 'live-installer' failed.
Jul 24 16:35:52 main-menu[252]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'high' to 'medium'
Jul 24 16:35:52 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Jul 24 16:35:53 main-menu[252]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb
Jul 24 16:36:00 main-menu[252]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb
Jul 24 16:36:00 main-menu[252]: INFO: Menu item 'save-logs' selected
```

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This bug also affected Ubuntu 15.10

```log
Jul 24 18:05:15 localechooser: Generating locales...
Jul 24 18:05:15 localechooser: zh_CN.GB2312...
Jul 24 18:05:15 localechooser: done
Jul 24 18:05:15 localechooser: Generation complete.
Jul 24 18:05:15 localechooser: Generating locales...
Jul 24 18:05:15 localechooser: en_US.UTF-8...
Jul 24 18:05:16 localechooser: done
Jul 24 18:05:16 localechooser: Generation complete.
Jul 24 18:05:17 live-installer: Unsupported charmap GB2312
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: warning: /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/25live-installer-console-setup returned error code 1
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-virtual usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-image-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-extra-4.2.0-16-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-virtual usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-image-4.2.0-16-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-4.2.0-16-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: Found kernels 'linux-signed-generic,linux-generic,linux-virtual,linux-signed-image-generic,linux-image-extra-4.2.0-16-generic,linux-image-generic,linux-image-virtual,linux-signed-image-4.2.0-16-generic,linux-image-4.2.0-16-generic'
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: arch_kernel candidates: linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-server linux-image-server linux-virtual linux-image-virtual linux-xen linux-image-xen linux-preempt linux-image-preempt linux-rt linux-image-rt
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: arch_kernel: linux-generic (present)
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: Using kernel 'linux-generic'
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: warning: Failed to get debconf answer 'base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd'.
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: Setting do_initrd='yes'.
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: info: Setting link_in_boot='no'.
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: apt-install or in-target is already running, so you cannot run either of
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: them again until the other instance finishes. You may be able to use
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: 'chroot /target ...' instead.
Jul 24 18:05:17 in-target: Unexpected error; command not executed: 'sh -c debconf-apt-progress --no-progress --logstderr -- apt-get -q -y --no-remove install busybox-initramfs'
Jul 24 18:05:17 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/failed-package-install
Jul 24 18:05:22 main-menu[224]: WARNING **: Configuring 'live-installer' failed with error code 1
Jul 24 18:05:22 main-menu[224]: WARNING **: Menu item 'live-installer' failed.
Jul 24 18:05:23 main-menu[224]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'high' to 'medium'
Jul 24 18:05:23 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Jul 24 18:05:26 main-menu[...

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Tao Wang (twang2218) wrote :

This bug is also affected Ubuntu 15.04.

```log
Jul 26 07:18:00 live-installer: /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-configuration.postinst: 1: /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-configuration.postinst:
Jul 26 07:18:00 live-installer: udpkg: not found
Jul 26 07:18:00 live-installer:
Jul 26 07:18:00 live-installer: Unsupported charmap GB2312
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: warning: /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/25live-installer-console-setup returned error code 1
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-virtual usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-image-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-extra-3.19.0-15-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-virtual usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-signed-image-3.19.0-15-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-3.19.0-15-generic usable on em64t-p4
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: Found kernels 'linux-signed-generic,linux-generic,linux-virtual,linux-signed-image-generic,linux-image-extra-3.19.0-15-generic,linux-image-generic,linux-image-virtual,linux-signed-image-3.19.0-15-generic,linux-image-3.19.0-15-generic'
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: arch_kernel candidates: linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-server linux-image-server linux-virtual linux-image-virtual linux-xen linux-image-xen linux-preempt linux-image-preempt linux-rt linux-image-rt
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: arch_kernel: linux-generic (present)
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: Using kernel 'linux-generic'
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: warning: Failed to get debconf answer 'base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd'.
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: Setting do_initrd='yes'.
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: info: Setting link_in_boot='no'.
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: apt-install or in-target is already running, so you cannot run either of
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: them again until the other instance finishes. You may be able to use
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: 'chroot /target ...' instead.
Jul 26 07:18:00 in-target: Unexpected error; command not executed: 'sh -c debconf-apt-progress --no-progress --logstderr -- apt-get -q -y --no-remove install busybox-initramfs'
Jul 26 07:18:00 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/failed-package-install
Jul 26 07:18:35 main-menu[216]: WARNING **: Configuring 'live-installer' failed with error code 1
Jul 26 07:18:35 main-menu[216]: WARNING **: Menu item 'live-installer' failed.
Jul 26 07:18:36 main-menu[216]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'high' to 'medium'
Jul 26 07:18:36 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Jul 26 07:18:37 main-menu[216]: DEBUG: resolver (kbd-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Jul 26 07:18:41 main-menu[216]: INFO: Menu item 'save-logs' selected
```

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