[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS r151016 is now out!

[Dan McDonald]

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 4:16 PM, Richard Skelton <skeltonr at btconnect.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dan,
> I am using the CD iso r151016 image and the installer drops back to the
> installation menu if I select the Europe time zone.
> If I select UTC/GMT the installer continues to the next screen "Date and
> Time"
> This did work in previous releases.

I've selected US, and then Eastern and it worked.  And I picked Europe, and it indeed failed.  Interesting.  Also failing:

	Africa
	Indian Ocean

It appears to be a problem with the installer program listing out timezones:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/text_install/__init__.py", line 420, in main
    screen = screen.show()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/terminalui/base_screen.py", line 149, in show
    self._show()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/sysconfig/timezone.py", line 162, in _show
    text=timezone, data_obj=timezone)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/terminalui/list_item.py", line 58, in __init__
    self.set_text(text, centered)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/terminalui/list_item.py", line 67, in set_text
    centered=centered)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/terminalui/inner_window.py", line 349, in add_text
    text = fit_text_truncate(text, max_chars)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/terminalui/i18n.py", line 118, in fit_text_truncate
    text = text.decode(get_encoding())
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

I'll need to dig down into this.

A workaround is to install UTC as your timezone, reboot to the new system, then edit /etc/default/init to change the system's default timezone, and reboot again to correct the timezone.

Dan