Thanks Gunnar,
Sorry I haven’t been quicker replying.
This is an awful bug-report I’ve done.
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My original problem was I couldn’t install software from the Ubuntu
Software App in the dock, because everything was displayed as a little
lozenge with an ellipses (…) in it.
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Googling for people reporting a similar problem, I was led to believe
that it was because there was a problem with the base language not being
properly configured.
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There were about 60 packages updated this-morning. Perhaps I should have
taken a snapshot before I updated to help with this report.
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After pulling Australian English to the top of the list, and installing
the package updates. I can search and find software packages in the Ubuntu
Software App. What enabled this - I cant be sure. I’ve enabled a Heisenbug…
Some interspersed comments below.
Many Thanks,
—Peter Goodall
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
1609...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
Thanks for your report.
>
> On 2016-08-04 08:42, Peter Goodall wrote:
> > One solution proposed was to change language selections from
> > Language Support in settings. When I tried this the only languages
> > available for selection are US English and English. Other languages,
> > including Australian English were visible in the list but
> > 'greyed-out'.
>
> The greyed-out items are available for selection, and as is stated in
> the UI you are supposed to drag one of them to the top to make it the
> main display language.
>
After about 45 years of computing, I associate greyed-out with unavailable.
As you say, when I drag my Australian language to the top of the list, it
became solid. Quite unusual UI. So much going on I didn’t read the notice
under the selector. My Apologies.
> > I failed by any means to install further language support, including
> > using the 'Install/Remove Languages' button on the "Language Support
> > dialog.
>
> How did you fail? Which error message(s) did you get?
>
Because the language selections were greyed-out I assumed I needed to
install them, when I went to the Install/Remove Languages dialog. I
couldn’t see Australian English in the list. Was not expecting to see two
structurally different language lists.
- For me ‘Australian English’ greyed-out meant I had to install it.
- When I went to install it, only a ‘generic’ English was available, and
it was already selected.
*I think it would be worth-while making this a little less surprising in
the UI*
>
> (Please note that gnome-language-selector is a script. The name of the
> binary package is language-selector-gnome, while language-selector is the
> name of the source package.)
>
> ** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
>Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1609652
>
> Title:
> gnome-language-selector incorrectly installed/configured
>
> Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> > lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
> Release: 16.04
>
> I believe that language support is not correctly installed configured.
> I was lead to the gnome-language-selector by trying to understand why
> the Ubuntu Software app failed to find any applications/search its
> database.
>
> One solution proposed was to change language selections from Language
> Support in settings. When I tried this the only languages available
> for selection are US English and English. Other languages, including
> Australian English were visible in the list but 'greyed-out'.
>
> I failed by any means to install further language support, including
> using the 'Install/Remove Languages' button on the "Language Support
> dialog.
>
> When I trued to report this problem I used the system app to find the
> process. It is called gnome-language-selector in the process list and
> process properties. ubuntu-bug said "dpkg-query: no packages found
> matching gnome-language-selector". But there it was in the process
> list. I then used ubuntu-bug -w to initiate this bug report.
>
> In summary:
>Ubuntu Software Center GUI application does not work because of some
> configuration/software error in 'Settings -> Language Support'
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
> Package: language-selector-gnome 0.165.3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
> Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
> ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Thu Aug 4 16:27:57 2016
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-13 (83 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
> (20160420.1)
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.5
>