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

Gunnar Hjalmarsson 1276072 at bugs.launchpad.net
Thu Feb 6 13:44:56 UTC 2014


Now this is strange. I see in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log the entry
"Greeter sets language fr_FR", and it's not followed by any error
message. Still, as you say, Language is not set in
/var/lib/AccountsService/users/scheuer.

Furthermore, since Language isn't set in
/var/lib/AccountsService/users/scheuer, accountsservice should fall back
to the language in /etc/default/locale. So French (France) should be
pre-selected at login.

I wouldn't think that those warning messages in x-0-greeter.log are
related. (I have one of those warnings myself.)

OTOH I'm kind of lost. I tested with my own relatively clean Xubuntu
installation (it's Xubuntu you are using, right?), and it behaves as
expected in this respect.

You could of course try to manually edit
/var/lib/AccountsService/users/scheuer and add these lines:

Language=fr_FR
FormatsLocale=fr_FR.UTF-8

** Package changed: language-selector (Ubuntu) => accountsservice
(Ubuntu)

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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Title:
  Language selection always falls back to English

Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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