Language selection always falls back to English
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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LightDM GTK Greeter |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Sean Davis | ||
lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
lightdm-gtk-greeter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
I upgraded two amd64 computers from 13.04 to 13.10, and discovered on both that the language is set to English (whereas I selected French language at the beginning of the upgrade).
Moreover, each time I set it back to French, dragging both French (France and Canada) and some English (UK & US) on top of the default English in the language selection list, default English comes back on top at next login.
I even tried to modify my .pam_environment (in console mode) and the /etc/environment to set fr_FR as the default, no way: gnome-language-
Hopefully, I do understand English, but this is turning me mad.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: language-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 4 10:48:33 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-29 (190 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-02-03 (0 days ago)
Changed in lightdm-gtk-greeter: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Dragging some French option to the top in Language Support should be sufficient. Please make sure that it stays on top before closing Language Support. (You may need a couple of attempts.)
There is normally no reason to edit ~/.pam_environment manually, and /etc/environment should not be used at all for setting language/locales. However, since you did edit ~/.pam_environment, it might explain why it doesn't work as expected. Can you please post the contents of your ~/.pam_environment file.