[Bug 1276072] Re: Language selection always falls back to English

[A. Scheuer]

Well, the point is that my ~/.pam_environment is modified (even if it is write-protected, funny) when I connect through the session manager (which is lightdm), and precisely at that moment (I did monitor this on tty1), but not when I connect on console mode (on tty1, for example). 
And even now that I found the way to correct the language setting (by selecting it in the language selector of the session manager), I have to do it at each connection (it is set back to English) - in fact, I found that the session's type is correctly kept on both my computers, only the language is a problem. Otherwise (if it let English), the two first lines of my ~/.pam_environment are modified (to LANGUAGE=en \\ LANG=en_US.UTF-8). I add an archive with my current versions of /etc/environment and ~/.pam_environment.

And, at last, even now that I corrected the language setting, I found
out that some translation are missing (update manager, synaptic, Gimp,
evince, emacs, calculator, ...). I think I did not have this problem
when I connected before (but I may be mistaken). The language setting
does not seems correct, in fact: gnome-language-selector still shows
English on top, and French at the bottom (and thus grey)... I however
have some (about a half) of the main menu items  in French...

As a conclusion, it only partially works with my turnaround.

** Attachment added: "envir.tbz"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1276072/+attachment/3969887/+files/envir.tbz

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Title:
  Language selection always falls back to English

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I upgraded two amd64 computers from 13.04 to 13.10, and discovered on both that the language is set to English (whereas I selected French language at the beginning of the upgrade).
  Moreover, each time I set it back to French, dragging both French (France and Canada) and some English (UK & US) on top of the default English in the language selection list, default English comes back on top at next login.

  I even tried to modify my .pam_environment (in console mode) and the
  /etc/environment to set fr_FR as the default, no way: gnome-language-
  selector seems to force default English as default at each connection!

  Hopefully, I do understand English, but this is turning me mad.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.116
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25-generic 3.11.10
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Feb  4 10:48:33 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-29 (190 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-02-03 (0 days ago)

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