You have been subscribed to a public bug: After upgrading from precise to trusty lightdm only offers to log in to a Japanese environment now (lightdm login screen, the pulldown only has "ja" on offer). I looked around but could not spot why this would be.
$ sudo rgrep -i ja_JP /etc/ Binary file /etc/.git/index matches /etc/scim/config:/Hotkeys/FrontEnd/Trigger/ja_JP = Zenkaku_Hankaku,Alt+grave,Control+space /etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0755 './X11/ja_JP.UTF-8' /etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0755 './X11/ja_JP.UTF-8/app-defaults' /etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0644 './X11/ja_JP.UTF-8/app-defaults/TiMidity' /etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0755 './X11/ja_JP.eucJP' /etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0755 './X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults' /etc/.etckeeper:maybe chmod 0644 './X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/TiMidity' /etc/locale.alias:japanese ja_JP.eucJP /etc/locale.alias:japanese.euc ja_JP.eucJP /etc/locale.alias:ja_JP ja_JP.eucJP /etc/locale.alias:ja_JP.ujis ja_JP.eucJP /etc/locale.alias:japanese.sjis ja_JP.SJIS /etc/wwwoffle/namazu/namazurc:## Lang: Set the locale code such as `ja_JP.eucJP', `ja_JP.SJIS', /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default:# Japanese ja_JP* kinput2 "@im=kinput2" Shift-Space $ ll /etc/X11/ total 92 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 2 2010 X -> /usr/bin/Xorg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 709 Apr 1 2010 Xreset drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 20:57 Xreset.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 20:57 Xresources -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3730 Feb 19 2010 Xsession drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 23 14:07 Xsession.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 Feb 19 2010 Xsession.options -rw------- 1 root root 601 Mar 2 2010 Xwrapper.config drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 23 14:41 app-defaults drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 2012 cursors -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Dec 24 01:06 default-display-manager drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 23 14:41 fluxbox drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 3 2010 fonts drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 23 14:45 ja_JP.UTF-8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 23 14:45 ja_JP.eucJP lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 3 2010 openbox -> ../xdg/openbox -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17394 Feb 19 2010 rgb.txt drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 23 01:41 xinit drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 5 23:01 xkb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 270 Feb 1 11:05 xorg.conf.failsafe drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 20:57 xsm $ cat /etc/environment PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games" LC_MESSAGES="C" I thought that maybe this behaviour is due to the ja_JP folders inside /etc/X11 and those belong to timidity. $ dpkg -S /etc/X11/ja_JP.* timidity: /etc/X11/ja_JP.UTF-8 timidity: /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP The strange (and upsetting) thing is that this even overrides an explicit setting I have made. $ cat ~/.environment #LANGUAGE="en_US:en" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C" ** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete ** Tags: trusty -- login only offers japanese environment https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296209 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp