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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Title:
language selecter crashing when trying to change language region
german-german to german-switzerland
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
language selecter crashing when trying to change language region
german-german to german-switzerland
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.165.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-37.42~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Mar 22 20:27:05 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-05 (107 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20170801)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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