Gnome switches to chinese language

[Tobias Grüninger]

After downgrading Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from Unitiy to old gnome desktop via sudo 'apt-get install gnome-session-fallback' I noticed that after the next restart, gnome menues were parially in Chinese.
I serched and used locale-gen and dpkg-reconfigure locales to reconfigure and also gnome-language-selector, but still after reboot the environment variables were set to LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 and LANGUAGE=zh_CN.UTF-8.
Only after editing .pam_environemnt and setting there the variables LANG=en_EN.UTF-8 and LANGUAGE=en_EN.UTF-8, gnome started back in english.

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[Tobias Grüninger (tobias-xqt)]

clarified package

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Gintautas Miliauskas (gintas)]

I believe this is a duplicate of 1024800 (or the other way around). The idea there that the Keyboard Layout dialog is misbehaving seems to make sense.

[Gintautas Miliauskas (gintas)]

Link to duplicate: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/1024800