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Unnecessary languages listed but not installed after install

Bug #960314 reported by Sergio Zanchetta on 2012-03-20

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	accountsservice (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Gunnar Hjalmarsson
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Testing Precise ISO build 20120319.

Steps:
1) Boot it from a usb/cd live and click on Try Ubuntu with English language.
2) Click on Install icon on the desktop, connected or not to the net (it's the same)
3) After reboot, the language selector shows as screenshot-19 and screenshot-20 (regional format)

English variants and Chinese are grey in the list, the only installed language (checked in install/remove languages...) is English.

See original description

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-20:

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-20:

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) on 2012-03-20

description:

updated

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-20:

Tested selecting Italian on Try Ubuntu and then start installing.

See screenshot-21 taken after rebooting.

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-20:

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-20:

With an italian installation, If I try to deselect English, it removes the related packages finishing in the state shown in screenshot-22 and screenshot-23, chinese is not grey and it's not installed.

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-20:

I mean, obviously it's not installed ;-)

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-20:

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-20:

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Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2012-03-21:

Another step.
Starting from situation in comment #5, after rebooting the incomplete language windows appear and then opening Language Support app it ask me to install poppler-data package.

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Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng) wrote on 2012-04-10:

#10

I think what you see with English is intentional: all the locales are installed by the English language pack, but it would make not much sense to enable them all at the same time, so they are under the default English entry.

What you see with Chinese is IMHO the same as bug #863378.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2013-01-29:

#11

I have proposed a change to /usr/share/locales/remove-language-pack to fix bug 863378, and like Gabor I have a feeling that it might take care of this bug as well.

@Colin, are you able to tell?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2013-01-30:

#12

accountsservice_lp-960314.diff Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain)

Even if the attached accountsservice patch does not fix the root cause of this bug, it prevents e.g. a Chinese item from being displayed in the language list if no Chinese langpack is installed. It does not affect the list of locales for setting regional formats, though.

Changed in accountsservice (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → In Progress
tags:	added: patch

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-01-30:

#13

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

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-01-30:

#14

This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.29-1ubuntu5

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accountsservice (0.6.29-1ubuntu5) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/0009-language-tools.patch:
    Prevent language-options from listing items that don't correspond
    with an installed langpack, even if there is a matching locale
    (LP: #960314).
-- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:10:00 +0100

Changed in accountsservice (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote on 2020-03-05:

#15

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote on 2020-05-06:

#16

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.