Config using loc key instead of messages ( Prompt0Default1 )

[giggio]

The current release (v2.101.1 Preview) is generating several errors, making it impossible to configure. Here is the output when configuring with args, unattended:

agentuser@6566cd252050:/agent$ ./bin/Agent.Listener configure --url https://uniobuild.visualstudio.com --pool Foo --auth PAT --token $AGENT_PAT --agent $(hostname) --unattended

>> EulasSectionHeader:

TeeEula

>> ConnectSectionHeader:

ConnectingToServer
The value cannot be null or empty.
Parameter name: value

This worked with the previous release.

If you try to configure manually, there are prompt errors, so one is not able to understand what to input. Here is the output:

agentuser@6566cd252050:/agent$ ./config.sh

>> EulasSectionHeader:

TeeEula

Prompt0Default1 >

What is Prompt0Default1?

The --help is also not working. Here is the output:

agentuser@6566cd252050:/agent$ ./config.sh --help
ListenerHelp

This is when running on Ubuntu 16.04, with all prerequisites installed as directed.

[bryanmacfarlane]

That looks like a loc key. Eric?

[ericsciple]

I can't repro the resource string issue on Ubuntu 14. Trying to track down someone with an Ubuntu 16 box now... otherwise I'll set one up.

[ericsciple]

@giggio can you check a few things (I chatted with @stiliev and got a few more ideas): 1) Can you confirm you followed these steps to install libicu52? 2) Can you verify you have the file bin/en-US/strings.json under your agent directory? and that it is not empty. 3) Can you tell me how your language environment variables are setup? printenv|sort and check GDMLANG, LANG, LANGUAGE, LC*. I'm not sure which one exactly CoreCLR is using, but we may have a problem with our fallback logic. I'll try and repro your exact scenario.

[abhimanyusinghal]

Facing same issue while using OSX Agent. When I try to configure I get following:

>> EulasSectionHeader:

TeeEula

[Prompt0Default1 >

[bryanmacfarlane]

What's your language settings?

[giggio]

Hello there, @ericsciple 1) Yes, I did. 2) Yes, it is there, and has lots of values. 3) Here is the output (removed some sensitive info):

$ printenv | sort
HOME=/home/agentuser
HOSTNAME=19f3102b6d01
LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
PWD=/agent
SHLVL=1
TERM=xterm
_=/usr/bin/printenv

As you can see, I don't have any of those GDM_LANG, LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_*.

[ericsciple]

@giggio Great! I was able to repro by unsetting my LANG env var.

As a workaround, can you try export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 then ./config.sh?

[giggio]

@ericsciple Yes, setting LANG fixes the issue.

[ericsciple]

@giggio thanks, for confirmation. I'll get a fix in for the next release drop. I'll leave this issue open for now so others can find the workaround.

If you still have other issues with unattended install, lets work through them on a separate issue. Thanks again for your help.

[bryanmacfarlane]

Fixed with https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent/pull/230