Encountered this problem yesterday after upgrading under Saucy from KDE 4.11.2 to 4.11.3. Thinking it might be caused by misconfiguration I did some reseach wich cost me almost a day without fixing it .-( But I hope thus I can at least provide some useful addtional information :-)
1. After the update I first noticed that the spell checking in kmail was gone. I couldn't choose the language any more and spell checking doesn't work for preset German any more. Neither could I choose system language nor make any additional language or location settings in systemsettings. Furthermore I noticed that the little widget I use to switch my keyboard from German to English or Spanish doesn't show the flags anymore. And even though all application I set to use other languages than system language still use these, at least for menus, I couldn't change the language anymore. 2. Somehow language setting got totally messed up during the update. locale -a produces following output, which shows all the three languages I have installed: knut@knubuntu:~$ locale -a C C.UTF-8 de_AT.utf8 de_BE.utf8 de_CH.utf8 de_DE.utf8 de_LI.utf8 de_LU.utf8 en_AG en_AG.utf8 en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_IN.utf8 en_NG en_NG.utf8 en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 en_SG.utf8 en_US.utf8 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZMSin nombre en_ZM.utf8 en_ZW.utf8 es_AR.utf8 es_BO.utf8 es_CL.utf8 es_CO.utf8 es_CR.utf8 es_CU es_CU.utf8 es_DO.utf8 es_EC.utf8 es_ES.utf8 es_GT.utf8 es_HN.utf8 es_MX.utf8 es_NI.utf8 es_PA.utf8 es_PE.utf8 es_PR.utf8 es_PY.utf8 es_SV.utf8 es_US.utf8 es_UY.utf8 es_VE.utf8 POSIX But invoking just locale produces weird results: knut@knubuntu:~$ locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=es_C.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=es:de:en_GB:en_US:en LC_CTYPE="es_C.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="es_C.UTF-8" LC_TIME="es_C.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="es_C.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="es_C.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="es_C.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="es_C.UTF-8" LC_NAME="es_C.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="es_C.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="es_C.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="es_C.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_C.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Please notice the weird locale es_C.UTF-8. After further investigation I encountered the file ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh with following contents: export LANG=es_C.UTF-8 export LANGUAGE=es:de:en_GB:en_US:en Deleting it I at least got rid of "es_C.UTF-8". BTW, as a look into my backups revealed, above mentioned file didn't exist before the update. At least it did not exist a week before the update and meanwhile I did not make any changes to the localization. 3. Hoping this might fix the problem I shortly after the update to 4.11.3. updated to 4.12 from the backport ppa's. It did not help. I suppose the problem is caused by a bug in the package systemsettings which inspite of the update to 4.12 still is 4:4.11.3-0ubuntu01. At least I could not find any other kde related package responsible for language settings. language-selctor-kde, as proposed in a post I found, doesn't exist in the Saucy repositories. BTW, I installed language-selctor-gnome and could access all localization setting for gnome application without problem. Thus I suppose this is a kde related problem. Here the basics again: knut@knubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-ia32:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-ia32:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-ia32:security-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 Codename: saucy knut@knubuntu:~$ uname -a Linux knubuntu 3.11.0-14-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 17:07:40 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux knut@knubuntu:~$ kded4 --version Qt: 4.8.4 KDE Development Platform: 4.12.0 KDE Daemon: 4.12.0 Package systemsettings is 4:4.11.3-0ubuntu01 Furtherrmore I add some screenshots made from kmail and systemsettings. I hope this information may help fix the bug soon. Knut ** Attachment added: "localization settings in systemsettings and missing dictionaries and language settings in kmail" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1255761/+attachment/3933814/+files/localization-kde-4.11.3.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1255761 Title: Can't configure country, languages, or spell checker To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1255761/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
