Comment 3 for bug 35576

I have talked with Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni offlist.

We both used:
$ locale
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=

and....

> $ cat /etc/environment
> LANGUAGE="de_DE:de:en_GB:en"
>
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

It might possible, that the install-script which should put the MAC-address in /etc/iftab fails with this locale settings, because:

$ ifconfig
eth0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:0B:6A:BB:8E:ED
[...]

$ LANG=C ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:6A:BB:8E:ED
[...]

When the script "greps" the MAC from this output, it could break with User-locale settings.

Anyone who can confirm this?