Ubuntu
language-selector package

can't add new language

Bug #576935 reported by Ákos Maróy
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Bug Description

I'm trying to add an additonal language in System -> Administration -> Lanaguage support, by clicking Install / Remove languages. I click on the desired language (say, Hungarian or Japanese or both), then click on 'Apply Changes'

after this, the window is grayed out, and a spinner starts - but will never stop. there's no package download / progress bar window appearing (which i'd expect), nothing. the spinner just goes on forever, like over 10 minutes, and nothing happens. there's no system load either at this time - it seems to be blocking on something.

I'd expect this to 'just work'

T L R (tlr)
affects: ubuntu → language-selector (Ubuntu)
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Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :

This happened to me too. I tried to install Spanish and Esperanto, but it didn't seem to be doing anything.

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
Package: language-selector 0.5.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.utf8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
SourcePackage: language-selector
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686

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Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :

This might be related: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-pack-gnome-en/+bug/576624

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Ákos Maróy (akos-maroy) wrote :

might be related - though that issue is reported to be solved by recent software updates.

on my system, everything is updated to the latest package, but the problem still persists

BTW, is there a work-around somehow?

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Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :

You can install the language pack from terminal:
sudo aptitude install language-pack-xx

xx is the two letter code of your language.

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Ákos Maróy (akos-maroy) wrote :

yeah, but will this include everything, including keyboard input methods, etc?

everything that the UI would install?

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

Hmm... my guess would be that your package cache is screwed up.
Does 'apt-get update' from the command line return any error message?
Have you updated from a previous Ubuntu release or did you install it from scratch?

Could you please post the output of 'dpkg -l | grep language-' ?

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Ákos Maróy (akos-maroy) wrote :
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here you go:

# apt-get update
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_GB
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_GB
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_GB
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_GB
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid/partner Packages
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-upd...

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Ákos Maróy (akos-maroy) wrote :

I'm still experiencing this issue. is there any more information I can provide?

manually installing language-pack-gnome-xx and language-support-xx seems to work well though.

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Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :

Ákos Maróy, after providing the requested information you can mark the issue as confirmed so they look at it and (possibly) ask for more information.

My apt-get update shows no errors either, and I also installed ubuntu 10.04 from scratch.

thanks.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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