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  1. Bug #43706
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Comment 22 for bug 43706

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

Why en_US.UTF-8 locale is generated every time during liveCD/liveUSB startup? See these lines in less /var/log/casper.log :

Begin: Setting up locales... ... Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
done.

Locale generation uses a lot of memory and slowdowns startup.
I think en_US.UTF-8 locale should be already generated in filesystem.squashfs and other locales should be generated during liveCD/liveUSB startup only if user chooses another language in syslinux.

It seems Ubuntu 12.04 and newer releases already contains en_US and other en_* locales in filesystem.squashfs (they are generated during installation of language-pack-en-base package), but script casper-bottom/14locales doesn't check if locale isn't already generated - I think command "localedef --list-archive" should be used for checking if needed locale isn't already generated.