gnome-control-center crashes if you change the language of the login screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu GNOME |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch gnome-control-
2. Select 'Region & Language'
3. Click on the 'Login Screen' button
4. Click on Language, type admin password as required
5. Change the language to something else, click Done
What happens:
gnome-control-
What should happen:
no crash.
Extra details:
Running gnome-control-
If you look at ./debian/
if (!lang) {
}
Changing this to lang = g_strdup ("") should be enough to fix the bug.
I'm using Ubuntu GNOME, and gnome-control-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 22 19:08:37 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-25 (454 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-control-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (5 days ago)
usr_lib_
Changed in ubuntu-gnome: | |
milestone: | none → trusty |
status: | New → Confirmed |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Workaround:
localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
(or whichever language you prefer for the login screen).