This happened to me after rebooting after dist upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10. The sequence was exactly as described in bug #219888 (marked as duplicate to this) but I was never requested to reboot again, so didn't do so.
So yes, still an issue in karmic. -- gnome-language-selector crashed with IOError in getSystemDefaultLanguage(), as /etc/default/locales is not user writable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210180 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs