Dutch NL Locale sets everything to English

[Damiön la Bagh]

Binary package hint: language-support-nl

After a regular update both my desktop and laptop locales for nl_NL.UTF-8 are messed up and tabbing on the command line is a mess.
All my menu's are in English instead of Dutch.
I get these kinds of messages when I double tab to complete the filename
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (nl)
And the system keeps asking if it can change all my folders to English. Not cool!

I've done a full reinstall of the packages
language-support-nl
language-pack-nl
language-pack-nl-base

done a dpkg-reconfigure locales

rebooted the system several times

reinstalled Dutch from the Languages settings under System... Languages

As this is happening on two different machines after the same update I think it's a bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: language-support-nl 1:9.10+20090909
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.60-generic 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 31 21:18:09 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nl:en
 LANG=nl
 LC_MESSAGES=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-support-nl

[Damiön la Bagh (kat-amsterdam)]

I realized afterwards that my title is not descriptive enough... maybe the title should be the error message instead. I don't know how to change the title of a bug in Launchpad.

Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

[Eimann (eimann)]

I'm seeing a similar problem, though with another locale.
Curses-applications, UTF-8 charaters in Terminal, etc. are all messed up.

> locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
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=

> sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LC_MESSAGES = "en_US.UTF-8",
 LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
 LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales...
  de_AT.UTF-8... up-to-date
  de_BE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  de_CH.UTF-8... up-to-date
  de_DE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  de_LI.UTF-8... up-to-date
  de_LU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  ko_KR.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

[Damiön la Bagh (kat-amsterdam)]

I just got in a report that this is also happening in Maverick as well as Lucid so it's an update that happened to both versions.

[Eimann (eimann)]

> apt-cache policy language-support-en
language-support-en:
  Installed: 1:9.10+20090909
  Candidate: 1:9.10+20090909
  Version table:
 *** 1:9.10+20090909 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"

[Eimann (eimann)]

> dpkg -l|egrep 'language-[s,p]'
ii language-pack-de 1:10.10+20101204 translation updates for language German
ii language-pack-de-base 1:10.10+20100930 translations for language German
ii language-pack-en 1:10.10+20101204 translation updates for language English
ii language-pack-en-base 1:10.10+20100930 translations for language English
ii language-pack-gnome-de 1:10.10+20101204 GNOME translation updates for language German
ii language-pack-gnome-de-base 1:10.10+20100930 GNOME translations for language German
ii language-pack-gnome-en 1:10.10+20101204 GNOME translation updates for language English
ii language-pack-gnome-en-base 1:10.10+20100930 GNOME translations for language English
ii language-pack-gnome-ko 1:10.10+20101204 GNOME translation updates for language Korean
ii language-pack-gnome-ko-base 1:10.10+20100930 GNOME translations for language Korean
rc language-pack-gnome-nds-base 1:10.10+20100930 GNOME translations for language Geman, Low
ii language-pack-ko 1:10.10+20101204 translation updates for language Korean
ii language-pack-ko-base 1:10.10+20100930 translations for language Korean
rc language-pack-nds-base 1:10.10+20100930 translations for language Geman, Low
ii language-selector 0.6.6+langfixes~maverick1 Language selector for Ubuntu Linux
ii language-selector-common 0.6.6+langfixes~maverick1 Language selector for Ubuntu Linux
ii language-support-en 1:9.10+20090909 metapackage for English language support
ii language-support-fonts-ko 1:9.10+20090909 Additional fonts metapackage for Korean
ii language-support-input-ko 1:9.10+20090909 Input methods metapackage for Korean
ii language-support-writing-de 1:10.04+20100311 Writing aids metapackage for German
ii l...

[Patrick Then (patrickthen)]

Same here for german localization on 10.10 64bit.
Before reading about the bug I also tried installing a different language pack (italian), which didn't help.

[vagrale (vagrale)]

Same problem with Greek.
See for more info here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/746694

Try to logout and select the other language system of the panel, must be two now with your language.
Loggin and must be ok!

[Eimann (eimann)]

Thanks vagrale. After updating + logout/login it works again.

[Patrick Then (patrickthen)]

Seems it got fixed by the recent update of GDM, thanks!