/etc/pam.d/gdm-launch-environment is run as user gdm, so it's not what
we're interested in.
/etc/pam.d/gdm-password appears to be what sets the environment upon
user login.
When adding some logging to that module, I'm seeing the following:
pam_env(gdm-password:session): username=ubuntu
pam_env(gdm-password:session): user env path: /home/ubuntu/.pam_environment
pam_env(gdm-password:session): parsing config file
pam_env(gdm-password:session): remove variable "LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en_GB:en"
pam_env(gdm-password:session): remove variable "LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8"
It turns out, "VARIABLE=value" is not the correct syntax for
~/.pam_environment. The expected syntax is "VARIABLE [DEFAULT=[value]]
[OVERRIDE=[value]]" (man pam_env.conf).
And indeed if I modify ~/.pam_environment to conform to that syntax, I'm seeing
this instead:
pam_env(gdm-password:session): pam_putenv("LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en_GB:en")
pam_env(gdm-password:session): pam_putenv("LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8")
That doesn't seem to fix the overall issue though, as the values of
LANGUAGE and LANG are still those from /etc/default/locale after logging
in.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662031
Title:
Switching language and format broken
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
New
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in accountsservice source package in Artful:
New
Status in gdm3 source package in Artful:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-control-center source package in Artful:
New
Bug description:
In Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 it doesn't matter what display language I select
- the effective language is still the one stated in
/etc/default/locale. ~/.pam_environment is changed as expected, but
the variables set in /etc/default/locale override ~/.pam_environment.
In Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 language switching takes effect, but the reason
for that seems to be that /etc/default/locale is changed as well, so
when a user changes the display language (or format), it changes it
for all users on the system.
The overriding by /etc/default/locale is probably caused by some other
package(s) but g-c-c.
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