Languages list empty at login screen, even though language-support-ar is installed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm |
Expired
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Low
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gdm (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gdm
After dist-upgrade from Jaunty 9.04 to Karmic 9.10 (via update-manager), gdm no longer displays a language list at the login screen (after clicking my username) via clicking the "Languages" drop-down list -> "Other"... It's just BLANK... However, the input languages list is displayed just fine...
I have installed language-support-ar previously, which in turn installed language-pack-ar and language-
$ cat /var/lib/
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
ar_EG.UTF-8 UTF-8
$ cat /var/lib/
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
$ cat /var/lib/
ar_EG.UTF-8 UTF-8
# locale-gen
Generating locales...
ar_EG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
# apt-cache policy gdm
gdm:
Installed: 2.27.90-0ubuntu4
Candidate: 2.27.90-0ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 2.27.90-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
As a temporary workaround (and for testing), I edited my ~/.dmrc file and changed it's contents from:
~$ cat .dmrc
[Desktop]
Session=LXDE
Language=
Layout=us
to:
[Desktop]
Session=LXDE
Language=
Layout=us
and reloaded gdm via /etc/init.d/gdm
GDM then displays Arabic (Egypt) in the languages list upon login... and after reboot, English (US) and Arabic (Egypt) are still displayed when I click on my username because they're now cached as recently used languages..
So why isn't gdm detecting the currently installed language by itself?
Changed in gdm: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gdm: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
Changed in gdm: | |
status: | New → Expired |
Thank you for your bug report, not confirming the issue there though