Comment 4 for bug 1342292

We hit this again last week on the Orange Box.

I have now added a patch to orange-box.deb which hacks the fix into /etc/mass/preseeds/curtin_userdata. It would be ideal if either:
  a) MAAS would carry this patch
  b) apt would somehow fix this problem

Until such time as (a) or (b) happen, the orange-box.deb will be carrying this:

--- /etc/mass/preseeds/curtin_userdata 2014-09-23 21:18:30 +0000
+++ /etc/mass/preseeds/curtin_userdata 2014-10-01 11:41:06 +0000
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   driver_04_load: ["sh", "-c", "depmod && modprobe {{driver['module']}}"]
 {{endif}}
 late_commands:
+ lang: curtin in-target -- sh -c "/bin/echo 'Acquire::Languages \"none\";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations"
   maas: [wget, '--no-proxy', '{{node_disable_pxe_url|escape.shell}}', '--post-data', '{{node_disable_pxe_data|escape.shell}}', '-O', '/dev/null']
 {{if third_party_drivers and driver}}
   driver_00_key_get: curtin in-target -- sh -c "/bin/echo -en '{{key_string}}' > /tmp/maas-{{driver['package']}}.gpg"