Thanks Gunnar, Sorry I haven’t been quicker replying.
This is an awful bug-report I’ve done. - 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. - 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. - There were about 60 packages updated this-morning. Perhaps I should have taken a snapshot before I updated to help with this report. - 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 > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > 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 > PackageArchitecture: all > ProcEnviron: > PATH=(custom, no user) > SHELL=/bin/bash > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_US > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> > SourcePackage: language-selector > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1609652/+ > subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1609652 Title: gnome-language-selector incorrectly installed/configured To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1609652/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
