Language preference is not stored

[Rafael Belmonte]

Binary package hint: language-selector

gnome-language-selector is not storing my language preferences, change is not applied and when I run it again, I see that my last configuration was not saved.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: language-selector 0.5.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 18 03:07:23 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

Might be a file permisions issue?

Can you please post the output of
ls -l ~/.profile ~/.dmrc /var/cache/gdm/$USER/dmrc

[Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen)]

$ ls -l ~/.profile ~/.dmrc /var/cache/gdm/$USER/dmrc
ls: cannot access /home/rafael/.profile: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 rafael rafael 55 Aug 3 16:18 /home/rafael/.dmrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 rafael rafael 55 Aug 3 16:18 /var/cache/gdm/rafael/dmrc

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

It's not totally clear whether you tried to set language from the language-selector UI or from the language picker on the login screen. Anyway, since ~/.profile was missing, I'd like to mention that extensive code reorganization was made after v. 0.5.8. At least the current language-selector code should create ~/.profile if it does not exist. As regards language setting from the login screen, new code is about to be committed that changes the behavior.

Could you please check the behavior in Maverick (or Natty), and let us know if the bug is still valid?

[Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen)]

This seems to be fixed in Ubuntu 12.10.