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language-selector package

Regional & Language crashes when locale is set to "C" during install

Bug #386029 reported by Adrian Jadic
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language-selector (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Arne Goetje

Bug Description

Binary package hint: systemsettings-kde4

This behaviour is the same in Ubuntu as well as Kubuntu.

During installation I chose to have "no localization" Generic English
This has set the LC** variables to "C". So far so good.

If I try to change this through GUI "Regional and Language" I first get a kdesudo login and after I type the password the software crashes. In other words there is no way to install a language once it was set to "C".

However if a language is chosen during install the setting works fine and other languages can be installed and set as system languages.

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

This is likely the language selector program crashing. (It is launched via sudo when you click the install new languages button)

affects: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) → language-selector (Ubuntu)
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Adrian Jadic (jadic) wrote :

Sounds right. It is only the portion about installing or setting the system language that fails to run. AFAIK this is added by Kubuntu and is not a KDE issue.

And as I said the same thing happens in Ubuntu.

Can someone confirm this? It should be pretty easy to do so.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

If I set LANG=C in /etc/default/locale, I get a lang-sel crash:
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py:839: GtkWarning: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed
  cell = combo.get_child().get_cell_renderers()[0]
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py:806: GtkWarning: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed
  cell = combo.get_child().get_cell_renderers()[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector", line 34, in <module>
    options=options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 172, in __init__
    self.updateSystemDefaultCombo()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 58, in wrapper
    res = f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 817, in updateSystemDefaultCombo
    defaultLangName = self._localeinfo.translate(defaultLangCode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/LocaleInfo.py", line 148, in translate
    return self.translate_language(locale)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/LocaleInfo.py", line 110, in translate_language
    lang_name = gettext.dgettext('iso_639', self._lang[lang])
KeyError: 'C'

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.4.11

---------------
language-selector (0.4.11) karmic; urgency=low

  * Fix crash in gnome-language-selector (LP: #427716)
  * Fall back to 'en_US' locale if none has been defined or has been set
    to 'C'. (LP: #386029) (LP: #346363) (LP: #347240)
  * Fix crash when ~/.xinput/ is not present (LP: #219218)
  * Add manpage for gnome-language-selector (Thanks to Alex Lourie)
   (LP: #426642)
  * Fix typo in LanguageSelector/FontConfig.py (LP: #219398)
  * data/languagelist: add fallback codes for all English variations we
    have as locales (LP: #47280) (LP: #72952)
  * Update translations from Launchpad
  * Really remove now obsolete Chinese entry from language list
    (LP: #431228)

 -- Arne Goetje <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:58 +0800

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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