Latest dist-upgrade changed system language

[joneall]

Ever since I did a apt-get dist-upgrade two days ago, my system is speaking french again. (I had this problem before and never managed to resolve it.)

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$ ls -lzxy
ls*: option invalide -- 'z'
Saisissez «*ls --help*» pour plus d'informations.
$ find . -namxxx xx
find: prédicat inconnu « -namxxx »
$ apt-get install bltsflk
E: Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier verrou /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission non accordée)
E: Impossible de verrouiller le répertoire d'administration (/var/lib/dpkg/). Avez-vous les privilèges du superutilisateur*?

</code>

For info:

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en:fr:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

is that "LANGUAGE=en:fr:en" normal? How can I get english back again.

I'm not opposed to french; some of my best friends are french!

I still cannot figure out how to format these posts. I notice at the bottom of the page it says "HTML code is Off". Is that my problem, and how do I change it? Is there doc for the forum posting tools?

[joneall]

Formatting

Ok, I found the way to do formatting. Right in front of my eyes, actually. Remains the language problem.

[GreyGeek]

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...x-and-the-GIMP

[joneall]

Apparently it's a bug, but I had it in 13.something too. Anyway, I've subscribed to Bug #1322968 on Laucnhpad.

En attendant, guess I'd better get used to french....

[Kawaii]

I also got a problem with the system language settings that started when I did a full update, but it's different.
Suddenly, it won't let me use any other language anymore than the default system language (English).
I think it might be better to post it in a new thread.

[joneall]

I also got a problem with the system language settings that started when I did a full update, but it's different.
Suddenly, it won't let me use any other language anymore than the default system language (English).
I think it might be better to post it in a new thread.

That could be annoying too, especially if you need the other keyboard for special non-english characters (éàç...0). Have you checked the locale command, /etc/default/locale and System Settings > locale?

[Kawaii]

That could be annoying too, especially if you need the other keyboard for special non-english characters (éàç...0). Have you checked the locale command, /etc/default/locale and System Settings > locale?

I've written about it in more detail here:
https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...nglish-anymore

When I opened System Settings > Locale, I got the following weird warning:



After this warning for German, I got the same warning for Japanese. Both languages were removed from the language list on the right subsequently. Any attempts of re-adding them failed, it wasn't even possible to re-add them after logging out and loggin back in again or even after a reboot. While the adding itself worked fine and they then appeared in the list on the right, as soon as I clicked on "Apply", I always got the very same warning (see above), with the languages being removed again immediately.

Methinks the last update badly broke the system language settings.
At least I can still use the German keyboard layout, so I can still input German characters (äöüß) and don't have to deal with weird placements of characters (e.g. z -> y etc.).

The contents of /etc/default/locale is:

LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"

So it has the correct settings there, but that is apparently ignored.

[mrboese]

I'm affected, too. No more german language for me (And no other languages, too!!!)
And KDE could't load my desktop (Folder View), again, so I had to remove ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma-desktop to get it working without resetting everything after login.

I hope my parents are lazy and won't update - otherwise they will have a free english lesson


Note: Ahhh, now my Firefox and other GTK programs are english, too, so my mind don't have to switch between english and german - yay!



Update: Seems to be fixed, now.

[joneall]

I'm affected, too. No more german language for me (And no other languages, too!!!)
And KDE could't load my desktop (Folder View), again, so I had to remove ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma-desktop to get it working without resetting everything after login.

Update: Seems to be fixed, now.

I do not have anything in ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma-desktop. It's empty, except for a directory activities which is also empty.

[mrboese]

I do not have anything in ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma-desktop. It's empty, except for a directory activities which is also empty.

I deleted the wrong file/directory,but after login it was working again, so I assumed, this changed sth. (but after reboot it stopped working, again). The correct file to delete is located in ~/.kde/share/config.

After updating, the "Desktop" button is back to its normal position (I changed to default desktop, because I didn't want to repair it everytime I log in). Now, it works, again.

This is a very strange bug and I thought, it's gone with 4.13 (I was affected by it MANY times)?