Languages disappear from "System Settings - Language & Region" after running "update-locale" and performing a logout + login

[Danilo Cominotti Marques]

Steps to reproduce the issue in a freshly installed Freya with the latest updates:

1. Open "System Settings - Language & Region" just to confirm that "English" is listed as a language. Then, close "System Settings".
2. Open Terminal.
3. Run "sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=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_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8".
4. Log out.
5. Log in.
6. Open "System Settings - Language & Region", which will have no languages listed anymore.

[ed.granada (estebandou)]

Same here:

1. Install Fresh Freya
2. Set system language to Spanish
3. After a reboot, all languages has gone, and cant set to Spanish or other language.

Tried with setlocale, but

$ localectl status
Failed to issue method call: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

and

$ localectl set-locale "LANG=es_ES.utf8"
Failed to issue method call: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

All system and keyboard layout are now in English, and can't change it.

[Alexander Pankov (pianisteg)]

The same with Russia.

After adding English/US — no languages in the Language & Region setting...