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gnome-language-selector crashes when trying to drag English to the top

Bug #1581470 reported by Po-Hsu Lin on 2016-05-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1581567: SRU regression, can't change own data. Edit Remove

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	accountsservice (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned
	Xenial	Fix Committed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

CID: 201409-15485

I have this 16.04 system configured in Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), but when I was trying to drag "English (United States)" back to the top, the language selector will crash.

Steps:
1. Boot and make sure the system using Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
2. Open Language Settings
3. Try to change the order by dragging English (United States) to the top.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.165.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri May 13 06:55:03 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-04 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) wrote on 2016-05-13:

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) wrote on 2016-05-13:

I tried to run it in a terminal, this is how it crashed:
ubuntu@ubuntu-Latitude-E5250:~$ gnome-language-selector
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/LanguageSelector.py:105: UserWarning: The language list was modified by the program, since there should not be any non-English items after an English item.
  + 'should not be any non-English items after an English item.')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 67, in wrapper
    res = f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 1056, in on_treeview_locales_drag_end
    self.writeUserLanguage(envLanguage)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 802, in writeUserLanguage
    self.writeUserLanguageSetting(userLanguage=languageString)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/LanguageSelector.py", line 87, in writeUserLanguageSetting
    iface.SetLanguage(self.validateLangList(userLanguage))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied: Not authorized

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-05-13:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2016-05-13:

Thanks for your report, Po-Hsu Lin. This is actually an issue with accountsservice, and will be fixed when accountsservice 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.1 makes it into xenial-updates (it's currently in xenial-proposed).

affects:	language-selector (Ubuntu) → accountsservice (Ubuntu)
Changed in accountsservice (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Fix Committed

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ray (raydlee-ubuntu) wrote on 2016-05-15:

I'm getting no error when changing the language order (except lack of persistence beyond a reboot), but when I try to change the regional settings, I get a crash due to permission denial.

Would like to know an approximate timescale for this - will try 14.04 in the meantime.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2016-05-15:

On 2016-05-15 16:19, ray wrote:
> Would like to know an approximate timescale for this -

So would I. ;)

> will try 14.04 in the meantime.

Another, probably more convenient, option is to install accountsservice from xenial-proposed.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed

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Andrey Kazakou (a-v-kazakou) wrote on 2016-05-18:

I have error when i tried change regional format to Russian:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 67, in wrapper
    res = f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 79, in wrapper
    res = f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 1096, in on_combobox_locale_chooser_changed
    self.writeUserFormats()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 777, in writeUserFormats
    self.writeUserFormatsSetting(userFormats=code)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/LanguageSelector.py", line 75, in writeUserFormatsSetting
    iface.SetFormatsLocale(macr['SYSLOCALE'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied: Not authorized