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language-selector package

gnome-language-selector crashed when Apply System-Wide button was clicked.

Bug #1013996 reported by Kazushige GOTOH
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This bug affects 18 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
language-selector (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

I installed Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
Then I dragged and placed them.
And then gnome-language-selector crashed when I clicked on Apply System-Wide button.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.83
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.2.3-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Jun 16 17:06:00 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120606.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector']
SourcePackage: language-selector
Title: gnome-language-selector crashed with dbus.exceptions.DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Kazushige GOTOH (hautang0325) wrote :
visibility: private → public
Apport retracing service (apport)
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1013996

tags: added: iso-testing
dino99 (9d9)
tags: added: gnome-classic i386
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

Get this issue after last language-selector-gnome 0.84. First i get issue with password : my azerty keyboard is set as qwerty.
So trying to set my language (fr) as the default, when i hit "apply to whole system", the validation start into a loop and never end, need to kill the process, but get this crash. So its a regression.

Title of the crash: gnome-language-selector crashed with dbus.exceptions.DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExcited: Launch helper excited with unknown return code 1

Into traceback: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: could not get owner of name 'com.ubuntu.LanguageSelector' no such name
(/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py line 175 / 361 / 651

Strangely when logging in lightdm, the keyboard is in the correct "azerty" mode, but then it swith to "qwerty" into a terminal or elsewhere. So i need first to do : sudo setxkbmap fr (to get azerty)

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CSRedRat (csredrat) wrote :

This affect me. Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 3.

oleg (o-savenkov-79)
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → New
oleg (o-savenkov-79)
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
dino99 (9d9)
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
oleg (o-savenkov-79)
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → New
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

This is a knock-on effect of bug #1014429. language-selector doesn't cope gracefully with the dbus service crashing.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

Feedback after having installed the new packages :

- language-selector-gnome 0.85
- aptdaemon 0.45+bzr852-0ubuntu2

and logged out/in

Then selecting System Settings and switching a few languages for testing: "apply to whole system" now works without crashing.

Can probably set this report as fixed.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Agree with dino99; neither I am able to reproduce the issue on an
updated Quantal. Probably fixed via
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/language-selector/0.85

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