[Bug 746694] Re: GDM_LANG overrides my locales

NoOp 746694 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Apr 1 16:35:40 UTC 2011


Installed the backport gdm update today and noticed that my weather applet changed from Fahrenheit to Celsius. 
$ apt-cache policy gdm
gdm:
  Installed: 2.30.5-0ubuntu4.1+langfixes~maverick1
  Candidate: 2.30.5-0ubuntu4.1+langfixes~maverick1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.5-0ubuntu4.1+langfixes~maverick1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-backports/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.30.5-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main i386 Packages
     2.30.5-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

Local is now showing same/similar 'Cannot set' errors to those of bug #746796:
$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=
 
locale _should_ be:
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

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  GDM_LANG overrides my locales



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