Language selector hangs sometimes

[tsg1zzn]

Binary package hint: language-selector

When trying to apply language settings systemwide the language selector hangs eternally. This happens once in a while.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: language-selector 0.6.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 12 20:24:20 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 LANG=nb_NO.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

Why is this bug believed to be a duplicate of bug 507062? This looks like a hang or deadlock, whereas bug 507062 is a crash.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

On 2011-11-09 03:23, Eliah Kagan wrote:
> Why is this bug believed to be a duplicate of bug 507062?

You may want to ask Brian about it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/659060/comments/3

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

@Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Unlike this bug, bug 659060 is a crash and resembles bug 507062. What does that have to do with this bug?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Eliah,
A year ago I marked this bug as a duplicate of bug 659060, since they both report that language-selector sometimes stops working when you press a particular button. Possibly I'm wrong, but I don't think it's meaningful here to distinguish between hanging and crashing.

The link I posted leads to Brian's comment when he made both the bugs duplicates of bug 507062.

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

@Gunnar Hjalmarsson
It is definitely meaningful to distinguish between hanging and crashing. It is always meaningful, because in a hang (construed in the broadest sense of the term), a program continues running indefinitely without doing anything, whereas in a crash, it terminates abnormally. There are not very many problems that will cause both hangs and crashes in the same program in response to the same user action. The adverb "eternally" makes it clear that the term "hang" in this bug report was *not* being used to refer to a crash.

@tsg1zzn
I'm un-marking this as a duplicate. Are you still experiencing this bug? If not, then since you are the only person who has experienced it and it has not been confirmed, you should mark it as Invalid. If so, please provide details about anything that has changed and whether or not you are able to produce it on a more recent release of Ubuntu.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Closing this bug due to its age. Please file a new report, if the problem can be reproduced on a current Ubuntu version.