[Bug 1296209] [NEW] login only offers japanese environment

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After upgrading from precise to trusty lightdm only offers to log in to
a Japanese environment now (lightdm login screen, the pulldown only has
"ja" on offer).  I looked around but could not spot why this would be.

$ sudo rgrep -i ja_JP /etc/
Binary file /etc/.git/index matches
/etc/scim/config:/Hotkeys/FrontEnd/Trigger/ja_JP = Zenkaku_Hankaku,Alt+grave,Control+space
/etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0755 './X11/ja_JP.UTF-8'
/etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0755 './X11/ja_JP.UTF-8/app-defaults'
/etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0644 './X11/ja_JP.UTF-8/app-defaults/TiMidity'
/etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0755 './X11/ja_JP.eucJP'
/etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0755 './X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults'
/etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0644 './X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/TiMidity'
/etc/locale.alias:japanese	ja_JP.eucJP
/etc/locale.alias:japanese.euc	ja_JP.eucJP
/etc/locale.alias:ja_JP		ja_JP.eucJP
/etc/locale.alias:ja_JP.ujis	ja_JP.eucJP
/etc/locale.alias:japanese.sjis	ja_JP.SJIS
/etc/wwwoffle/namazu/namazurc:## Lang: Set the locale code such as `ja_JP.eucJP', `ja_JP.SJIS', 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default:#  Japanese   ja_JP*       kinput2    "@im=kinput2"           Shift-Space

$ ll /etc/X11/
total 92
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 Mar  2  2010 X -> /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   709 Apr  1  2010 Xreset
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 22 20:57 Xreset.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 22 20:57 Xresources
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  3730 Feb 19  2010 Xsession
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 23 14:07 Xsession.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   265 Feb 19  2010 Xsession.options
-rw------- 1 root root   601 Mar  2  2010 Xwrapper.config
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 23 14:41 app-defaults
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov 19  2012 cursors
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    18 Dec 24 01:06 default-display-manager
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 23 14:41 fluxbox
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root  4096 Mar  3  2010 fonts
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Mar 23 14:45 ja_JP.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Mar 23 14:45 ja_JP.eucJP
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 Mar  3  2010 openbox -> ../xdg/openbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17394 Feb 19  2010 rgb.txt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Mar 23 01:41 xinit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov  5 23:01 xkb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   270 Feb  1 11:05 xorg.conf.failsafe
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 22 20:57 xsm

$ cat /etc/environment 
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"
LC_MESSAGES="C"

I thought that maybe this behaviour is due to the ja_JP folders inside
/etc/X11 and those belong to timidity.

$ dpkg -S /etc/X11/ja_JP.*
timidity: /etc/X11/ja_JP.UTF-8
timidity: /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP

The strange (and upsetting) thing is that this even overrides an
explicit setting I have made.

$ cat ~/.environment 
#LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"

** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete


** Tags: trusty
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login only offers japanese environment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296209
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