Language information is not applied when running recovery from HDD

[Mario Limonciello]

Binary package hint: dell-recovery

Impact:
Currently launching recovery from the OS or the GRUB menu from a system installed via dell-recovery reboots into a ubiquity session that is always in English.

Resolution:
dell-recovery should pull this information from the OS or oem-config's language selection to set this up instead.

Addressing in development branch versus SRU:
For maverick (SRU):
  Those two bugs will be worked around directly in the way this is implemented in dell-recovery. Consequently, the code will differ a little from how this is done in natty.
For natty:
  There are two other bugs at play here. bug 686788 and bug 686789. These will both be fixed in GRUB2 and ubiquity respectively instead.

TEST CASE:
1) Install a system with dell-recovery following the steps at http://launchpad.net/dell-recovery or with an image that contians dell-recovery injected.
2) Select a non-english language during OEM-Config
3) After completing OEM-Config, run dell-recovery to launch recovery from HDD.
4) Observe that the language is always english for OEM-Config

Regression Potential:
Code that was untested for translations previously is now being exercised. The GUI might not fit properly if the translations are too lengthy.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package dell-recovery - 0.75

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dell-recovery (0.75) natty; urgency=low

  * Adjust the memory calculation to use /sys/firmware/memmap as
    dmi-available-memory is no longer available in natty.
  * Check for an omsk recovery option in /proc/cmdline and in the squashfs
    during the initrd. If it's found, don't run standard recovery/install.
  * Make sure /var/log/syslog actually exists before backing it up.
  * Check for running on an omsk image, and force dual boot to true if so.
  * During OOBE save the first set language as the language that recovery
    from HDD is ran as. (LP: #687480)
  * When the grub menu is regenerated, make sure LANG is properly set.
  * Fix widget translation for gtk Buttons.
  * Fix a backend crash when running in a more translated chinese.
  * Fix a backend crash with unicode paths.
  * Make sure the GRUB locale is properly set before rebooting in recovery.
  * Update translations from launchpad.
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:25:52 -0600

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted dell-recovery into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

It turns out that this was missing one additional translation item for GRUB. I'm uploading an updated dell-recovery (0.71.3) to include for the SRU.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted dell-recovery into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Kent Baxley (kentb)]

I tested the proposed SRU:

1) I selected Simplified Chinese during OEM-Config
2) After completing OEM-Config, I ran dell-recovery to launch recovery from the Hard Drive.
3) During the recovery process the Simplified Chinese language setting was preserved.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

maverick has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the maverick task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".