Yes, That issue is/was down to consolekit, and a fixed version is on its
way into beowulf.

Ralph.

Joril wrote on 28/8/19 11:14 pm:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I thought I'd try to install Beowulf inside VirtualBox to see if there's
> anything I could help with.
>
> I'm using
>
> http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/20190625+devuan7/images/netboot/mini.iso
>
>
> (is there a newer image?)
>
> First finding: the only way I could get the installation to finish
> correctly was to remove all of the "software selections" (tasksel). Not
> doing so would (somehow) lead to GRUB installation failing with
>
> "unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda"
>
> and on TTY4
>
> "grub-installer: cannot copy `/usr/share/locale/ru.gmo` to
> `/boot/grub/locale/ru.mo`: Is a directory"
>
> My partition layout is just this:
> - ext4 partition for root
> - swap partition
>
> Is this a known bug?
>
> Thanks for your time!
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