While the test plan now has information about changing the locale there
is nothing which covers the keyboard changes. I'm going to accept this
today but please update the test case to include testing the keyboard
changes and ensure that is also tested.
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Jammy)
Status: New => Fix Committed
** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2035122
Title:
Under ubuntu core/core-desktop, /etc/default/locale is not modifiable
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in systemd source package in Jammy:
Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Lunar:
Won't Fix
Status in systemd source package in Mantic:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
[Impact]
When working with ubuntu core or ubuntu core desktop, neither
*/etc/default/locale* nor */etc/default/keyboard* are modifiable, so
it's not possible to set the global keyboard or the global language.
This is required to allow to set the GDM language, and the default one
during installation.
The first half of the solution is to create the folder
*/etc/writable/default*, and make soft-links from
*/etc/default/locale* to */etc/writable/default/locale* and from
*/etc/default/keyboard* to */etc/writable/default/keyboard*, just like
it is already being done with */etc/hostname*, */etc/issue*,
*/etc/localtime*, */etc/motd* and , */etc/timezone*.
This solution, unfortunately, isn't complete. Although any application
that just reads the files will work, not all of the applications that
write to them will; specifically the systemd utilities that set the
contents for those files, because they don't open the file directly;
instead, they create first the new file in the same folder than the
old one, fill its contents, and only then delete the old one and
rename the new one. To solve this, systemd in Ubuntu already has
several patches that detect if a file is a soft-link, in which case it
replaces the old path with the destination one.
Currently I have in place a patch for Ubuntu Core Desktop that
implements both changes for both */etc/default/locale* and
*/etc/default/keyboard*.
[Test plan]
Using *sudo localectl set-lang LANG="xx_YY.UTF-8"* in an Ubuntu Core
or Ubuntu Core Desktop admin terminal must change the locale to the
specified one, which can be checked by reading the
*/etc/default/locale* file. Also, *localectl* must return the new
locale.
[Where problems could occur]
In general, applications just read the content of the file and use the
DBus interface to set the locale, so only those applications that
modify by themselves the */etc/default/keyboard* and/or
*/etc/default/locale* would present a problem, in which case they
would require specific patches. Anyway, those applications neither
would work with the current state (with those files in a read-only
filesystem).
[Other info]
For Noble, this will be addressed when we merge systemd v255 from
Debian. This is only needed on core, so we don't need to fix for
Mantic or Lunar.
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/2035122/+subscriptions
--
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages
Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
