[Oneiric] Empty GUI. Can't set local.

[Sam_]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Pidgin buddy list empty, stating, waiting for network connection, although it is established.
dpkg-reconfigure pidgin:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = "de:en",
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LC_MESSAGES = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LANG = "de"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Kann LC_ALL nicht auf die Standard-Lokale einstellen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

## last line says: Can't set LC_All to standard local: file or directory not found.

dpkg-reconfigure locales was already issued.
$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Kann LC_ALL nicht auf die Standard-Lokale einstellen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
LANG=de
LANGUAGE=de:en
LC_CTYPE="de"
LC_NUMERIC="de"
LC_TIME="de"
LC_COLLATE="de"
LC_MONETARY="de"
LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="de"
LC_NAME="de"
LC_ADDRESS="de"
LC_TELEPHONE="de"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de"
LC_ALL=

## btw. Apport displays question marks instead umlaut.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.11-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-3.10-generic 2.6.39
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-3-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 13 18:28:14 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C
 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Apport with "?".

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Sorry, posting apport screenshot fails reproducable. Usually it's possible to post a screenshot without commenting, but LP gave me an error, hence I've posted the noise, but it doesn't let me upload the screenshot.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Did you use lightdm ?

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Login screen doesn't look like this really,
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FpRQBU-CjqQ/TbZfEKYn9zI/AAAAAAAAB90/z6iPCLmLpvg/s400/login_screen___normal_by_and471-d3dqcl0.png
but I guess I'm using lightdm since I've chosen it during upgrade to Oneiric, got segfaults in log files regarding lightdm (Bug #796313) and it displays the time on top of screen.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Yep, there is a lightdm.log in /var.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for confirming the usage of lightdm. I'm marking as duplicate of bug 793366

[Charles Hudson (substreamai)]

I was fine in Ubuntu 11.04 not using Unitiy. After updating to 11.10 yesterday (I decided not to disable Unity) and now I have the problem. I don't know if its Unity or the update. I apologize for my lack of technical skill with Linux, I'm a hopeless noob, otherwise I'd know a better way to say this, and I'd now how to narrow the cause.

[Charles Hudson (substreamai)]

I just reinstalled Pidgin, the problem is gone! Hm