Comment 0 for bug 1892825

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bs (bentzy-sagiv) wrote :

By passing wrong input as following:
 sudo update-locale LANGUAGE = en_US.UTF-8
result is:
...
#LANGUAGE=en
=

This "equal" sign that was added makes system completely unusable(can't run sudo anymore):

bentzy@bentzy-nb:~$ sudo vim /etc/default/locale
sudo: pam_open_session: Bad item passed to pam_*_item()
sudo: policy plugin failed session initialization

Fixed it booting from installation disk and fixing corrupted /etc/default/locale

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: locales 2.31-0ubuntu9
Uname: Linux 5.5.4-050504-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Aug 25 09:36:03 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-17 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: glibc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)