[Bug 1772237] Re: Language support quits immediately after starting

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for your report!

Right, Python is the culprit; more precisely python and glibc have
different ideas about what's a correct locale name.

Probably your /etc/default/locale file includes this line:

LANG=en_IL

To fix this for yourself, open the file for editing and change that line
to:

LANG=en_IL.UTF-8

See also bug #1646260. I think I'll fix language-selector so it at least
does not crash in cases like this.

** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Triaged

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1772237

Title:
  Language support quits immediately after starting

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in language-selector source package in Bionic:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When I click on Language Support from the applications menu, it
  starts, shows a progress bar, and then immediately quits.

  I do not see the crash report window open (Apport), but something
  seems to crash. Here is what is appended to the syslog when the
  phenomenon happens:

  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]: Traceback (most recent call last):
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:   File "/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector", line 22, in on_activate
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:     options=options)
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 202, in __init__
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:     self.check_input_methods()
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 57, in wrapper
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:     res = f(*args, **kwargs)
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 453, in check_input_methods
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:     currentIM = self.ImConfig.getCurrentInputMethod()
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/ImConfig.py", line 39, in getCurrentInputMethod
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:     loc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)[0]
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 581, in getlocale
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:     return _parse_localename(localename)
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 490, in _parse_localename
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]:     raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
  May 20 12:20:28 alex-laptop gnome-language-selector.desktop[14134]: ValueError: unknown locale: en_IL

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.188
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun May 20 12:15:21 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-19 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_IL
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1772237/+subscriptions