Meaningful, highly visible error messages are nice.
But if config files in $HOME, which programs need to write to, are owned
by root, you can't expect your system to work. Programs typically crash
then; root owned files in $HOME may even prevent you from being able to
log in.
If you can show me a reproducible use case where ~/.pam_environment gets
owned by root through normal use of the system, it's indeed a bug which
should be fixed. But probably it happened via some mistake you did
yourself, and error handling can't reasonably anticipate every possible
user error. ;)
With that said, in this case the program did provide useful debugging
info; it did "not just crash":
running '/usr/share/language-tools/save-to-pam-env' failed: no output
That's why I easily could point you to what the problem was.
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Opinion
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language selecter crashing when trying to change language region
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