gnome-language-selector doesn't list en installed lang so i cannot select installed english language

Bug #657488 reported by marcobra (Marco Braida)
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language-selector (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: language-selector

Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

language-selector:
  Installato: 0.6.6
  Candidato: 0.6.6
  Tabella versione:
 *** 0.6.6 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

i want to have English and Italian lang installed on this pc, italian was my default lang and is already installed, i try to add the english lang, i want to switch it at login.

Here what i have done:
1) I select english from list, i select install
2) i do not give to the dialog window the user password and i choose to cancel the language installation then i try to close the gnome-lang-selector but it don't close itself
3) i use the "Force quit button" panel applet to force gnome-lang-selector to close

And after...

Language packages are all installed checked with dpkg but i can't select or switch language from gnome-language-selector nor at gdm login, the language is not listed in the listbox.
Also tried to remove and to reinstall language from gnome-language-selector.

Here the log:

Start-Date: 2010-10-10 00:12:07
Install: gimp-help-en:i386 (2.4.1-2), language-pack-en-base:i386 (10.10+20100930), language-support-writing-en:i386 (10.04+20100311), language-pack-kde-en:i386 (10.10+20100930), language-pack-gnome-en-base:i386 (10.10+20100930), openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us:i386 (2.5-1ubuntu1), thunderbird-locale-en-gb:i386 (3.1.2ubuntu1), language-pack-kde-en-base:i386 (10.10+20100930, automatic), kde-l10n-engb:i386 (4.5.1-0ubuntu1), thunderbird-locale-en-us:i386 (3.1.2ubuntu1), gnome-user-guide-en:i386 (2.30.0+git20100403ubuntu2), openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au:i386 (2.1-5), openoffice.org-hyphenation:i386 (0.6), openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us:i386 (3.2.1-2ubuntu1), openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb:i386 (3.2.1-6ubuntu1), openoffice.org-l10n-en-za:i386 (3.2.1-6ubuntu1), openoffice.org-help-en-gb:i386 (3.2.1-6ubuntu1), language-pack-en:i386 (10.10+20100930, automatic), openoffice.org-help-en-us:i386 (3.2.1-6ubuntu1), language-pack-gnome-en:i386 (10.10+20100930, automatic)
End-Date: 2010-10-10 00:13:04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: language-selector 0.6.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 10 00:17:47 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) wrote :
summary: - gnome-language-selector doesn't list so i cannot select installed
- english language
+ gnome-language-selector doesn't list en installed lang so i cannot
+ select installed english language
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

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

This is still a problem in 14.04. I have used the Language Selection child dialogue to install the Irish language but it does not show in the Language Selection list.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Hi TenLeftFingers,

This is a rather old bug report, and your issue seems not to be related to the original bug description. (As regards the old bug, a lot of changes to the language handling has happened, and I'd consider it obsolete.)

As regards Irish, I see no problems on my 14.04. Once installed, "Gaeilge" can be selected as the display language. The Irish keyboard layout is available in Text Entry whether you have installed the Irish language or not.

Can you please elaborate on the issue you are having.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers) wrote :

Hi Gunnar,

Apologies if I have raised the dead :) The issue I'm having is that after selecting Irish from the Install/Remove Languages dialogue, I should be seeing Gaeilge in the Language Support list but it doesn't show on this machine.

I tried running it again (X forwarding to my laptop) and saw this output:

** (gnome-language-selector:22702): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-iIuzZfldLm: Connection refused
[]
[<Package: name:'firefox-locale-ga' architecture='amd64' id:2712>, <Package: name:'language-pack-ga-base' architecture='amd64' id:2713>, <Package: name:'language-pack-gnome-ga-base' architecture='amd64' id:5653>, <Package: name:'language-pack-gnome-ga' architecture='amd64' id:5651>, <Package: name:'myspell-ga' architecture='amd64' id:1918>, <Package: name:'libreoffice-l10n-ga' architecture='amd64' id:11807>, <Package: name:'kde-l10n-ga' architecture='amd64' id:33666>, <Package: name:'language-pack-ga' architecture='amd64' id:5649>]
[]
[<Package: name:'firefox-locale-ga' architecture='amd64' id:2712>, <Package: name:'language-pack-ga-base' architecture='amd64' id:2713>, <Package: name:'language-pack-gnome-ga-base' architecture='amd64' id:5653>, <Package: name:'language-pack-gnome-ga' architecture='amd64' id:5651>, <Package: name:'myspell-ga' architecture='amd64' id:1918>, <Package: name:'libreoffice-l10n-ga' architecture='amd64' id:11807>, <Package: name:'kde-l10n-ga' architecture='amd64' id:33666>, <Package: name:'language-pack-ga' architecture='amd64' id:5649>]

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

The issue with Irish has been further discussed at <http://askubuntu.com/q/685606>. An attempt to reinstall language-pack-ga-base resulted in:

Generating locales...
  ga_IE.UTF-8... cannot open locale definition file `ga_IE': No such file or directory
failed

Hence the problem seems to be caused by an incomplete installation of the locales package. This is not a language-selector bug, so I'm closing this bug.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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