Beginners • Re: PI OS Upgrade: Buster to Bookworm

Nowhere else does the Raspberry Pi Imager ask for any additional locale information.

I'm not smart enough to know what all this means, but having the locale default to GB caused problems:

Code:

pi@sky:~ $ man scpman: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

This fixed it:

Code:

pi@sky: ~ $ sudo locale-genGenerating locales (this might take a while)...  en_US.UTF-8... doneGeneration complete.

This kind of issue is there already 25 years or longer. I have always used US intl keyboard but Germany originating distro Suse and now GB PiOS default to their national layout. PiOS 1.5 years ago or so got it wrong via netinstall and also last week with an image install/emulation test still wrong. I could type raspi-config and hit enter key so that way I could correct the layout.
Many other more generic ARM images usually have US intl keyboard so work out-of-the box for me via the most basic serial console cable as well. I never used the imager for real. A simple text list where you only need to type numbers and hit enter key to set keyboard layout is more effective IMHO.

Statistics: Posted by redvli — Sat Nov 02, 2024 2:17 pm

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