Notification of missing language support not shown after installation

[David Planella]

Binary package hint: language-selector

After experiencing bug 630924, I noticed that after installation with network language packs were not downloaded, which might have been because of that bug.

However, I would have expected the notification of missing language support to pop up after installation, which didn't happen.

I'm not sure if it will help, but as a reference, a very similar thing already happened in Lucid (bug 527623)

[Erdem (farukerdemoncel)]

I had a similiar problem after fresh installing Natty Narwhal Alpha 1. #bug 747652

After installation I ended up with an English system.

Here are installation settings:

* Language selected: Turkish (tr_TR.UTF-8)
* There were no keyboard layout selection screen
* Chosen to download updates during install
* Wired network present
* ubuntu-11.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso

[İsmail YILMAZ (ismailyilmaz1978)]

I am experiencing a similar difficulty with language support (on Natty Beta 1, i386/amd64, wired network, Turkish language), and I have found a temporary workaround (??) which might give you a clue about the problem. When LANG variable is set to "en_GB", the gnome-language-selector launches and retreives the language packs but with a bunch of error messages. Just type "setenv LANG="en_GB" gnome-language-selector" on CLI. In case of other variable values (in my case it was "tr_TR"), it simply fails.
I hope this might help.

[Evan (ev)]

While I was able to reproduce this after running an English install in the live CD desktop environment, I was unable to reproduce it from the installer only session.

[Evan (ev)]

I suspect ubiquity is not sufficiently lobotomizing localechooser between installs in that case, but that's likely a separate bug from this one.

[Evan (ev)]

I am unable to reproduce this at all in natty after trying many times yesterday. I now suspect that I failed to disconnect myself from the Internet (to makes the langpacks unavailable) in the test associated with my previous comment.

If you are still seeing this issue, please run the install in debug mode (`ubiquity -d` from a terminal window), then once it completes, please run `apport-collect 630927`. In addition to this, please attach /var/lib/ubiquity/langpacks and /var/lib/ubiquity/no-install/langpacks from the live CD environment after install, if they exist.

Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I tried that myself as well. I installed without network with German, then booted, and got the update-notifier message about missing language support. I'm downgrading this to non-RC as neither Evan nor I can reproduce it, and thus it doesn't seem to affect everyone.

I just wonder what mechanics actually is responsible for installing /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/incomplete-language-support-gnome.note. language-support-gnome package ships the template in /usr/share/language-support/incomplete-language-support-gnome.note, but language-selector itself does not have any code to actually install it. Is that code in ubiquity itself?

[Evan (ev)]

Martin,

Yes, ubiquity installs it. See lp:ubiquity, scripts/plugininstall.py:verify_language_packs. I agree that this is non-RC at this point.

Thanks!

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