In my case, the problem was a file ~/.dmrc which was as follows: [Desktop] Language=en_US Langlist=en_US:en LCMess=en_US.UTF-8 Layout=us Session=xfce
Deleting that .dmrc file fixed the issue. Neither the user of this user account, nor the admin user, has ever explicitly set a locale to en_US. So apparently there was a bug in a previous software version that produced the "en_US". (The same /home partition is being used as when a previous distro was running on the machine.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023421 Title: Update Manager can't set LC_MESSAGES to default locale To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1023421/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
