Yes, the user's don't have a .profile. I may have solved the other issue... If I comment out "LANG=" in /etc/default/locale, it works as expected, though I don't believe I should have to do this. That file seems to override the ~/.pam_environment settings.
Logging in as French (fr_FR, fr_CA is not available but that's another issue), and LANG set in /etc/default/locale: marc-cmo-ubuntu:~$ cat .pam_environment LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en marc-cmo-ubuntu:~$ cat /var/lib/AccountsService/users/cmo-testuser [User] Language=fr FormatsLocale=en_CA.UTF-8 XSession=kde-plasma KDE will run as French in this case, but anything that uses LANG will be English. Logging in again will leave English selected when the greeter starts, and appears to keep it throughout. With LANG commented out, when the greeter starts the language selector is blank. Selecting a language causes the proper things to be put into the two files, aside from FormatsLocale. marc-cmo-ubuntu:~$ cat /var/lib/AccountsService/users/cmo-testuser [User] Language=fr FormatsLocale=en_CA.UTF-8 XSession=kde-plasma marc-cmo-ubuntu:~$ cat ~cmo-testuser/.pam_environment LANGUAGE=fr:en_CA:en LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 I think this has drifted far from the original problem I opened the ticket for. I can get the behaviour I want by commenting out the line in /etc/default/locale. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/972484 Title: lightdm-gtk-greeter doesn't set language for non-local users Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: We have an environment where several users use different languages but share machines which use LDAP/Kerberos/NFS. In the previous LTS, the default display manager (GDM) provided a menu which would allow setting the language to use for a session, and would remember the previous setting (using ~/.dmrc). This appears to no longer work with lightdm in 12.04, and no menu is provided by default. However, a menu can be enabled for lightdm-gtk-greeter (1.1.4-0ubuntu1). Unfortunately, the language choice doesn't get used. I have the same problem if accountsservice (0.6.15-2ubuntu9) is enabled or not. The following is logged by lightdm when using accountsservice: [+117.92s] DEBUG: Continue authentication [+117.92s] DEBUG: Session 1719 got 1 message(s) from PAM [+117.92s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s) [+127.62s] DEBUG: Continue authentication [+127.67s] DEBUG: Session 1719 authentication complete with return value 0: Success [+127.67s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user phillipsa: Success [+127.68s] DEBUG: User phillipsa authorized [+127.68s] DEBUG: Greeter sets language fr [+127.69s] WARNING: Could not call SetLanguage: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: not access to HOME yet so language not saved [+127.69s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session gnome-fallback [+127.69s] DEBUG: Using session gnome-fallback [+127.69s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter [+127.69s] DEBUG: Session 1570: Sending SIGTERM [+127.71s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel [+127.71s] DEBUG: Session 1570 exited with return value 0 [+127.71s] DEBUG: Greeter quit [+127.72s] WARNING: Could not call SetXSession: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "SetXSession" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.Accounts.User" doesn't exist [+127.74s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 32000 [+127.74s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges [+127.76s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 32000 [+127.76s] DEBUG: Writing /net/cmo/home/phillipsa/.dmrc [+127.76s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges [+127.76s] DEBUG: Starting session gnome-fallback as user phillipsa [+127.76s] DEBUG: Session 1719 running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-session gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback [+127.79s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0 I understand that the new place for the language to be stored is in ~/.pam_environment, but the file does not get touched, rather ~/.dmrc does. From the lightdm logs when running in debug mode, in this case with account-daemon disabled: [+154.46s] DEBUG: Continue authentication [+154.47s] DEBUG: Session 1715 got 1 message(s) from PAM [+154.47s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s) [+156.97s] DEBUG: Continue authentication [+157.02s] DEBUG: Session 1715 authentication complete with return value 0: Success [+157.02s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user phillipsa: Success [+157.02s] DEBUG: User phillipsa authorized [+157.03s] DEBUG: Greeter sets language fr [+157.03s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 32000 [+157.03s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges [+157.03s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 32000 [+157.03s] DEBUG: Writing /net/cmo/home/phillipsa/.dmrc [+157.03s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges [+157.04s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session gnome-fallback [+157.04s] DEBUG: Using session gnome-fallback [+157.04s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter [+157.04s] DEBUG: Session 1567: Sending SIGTERM [+157.06s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel [+157.06s] DEBUG: Session 1567 exited with return value 0 [+157.06s] DEBUG: Greeter quit [+157.06s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 32000 [+157.06s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges [+157.06s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 32000 [+157.06s] DEBUG: Writing /net/cmo/home/phillipsa/.dmrc [+157.06s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges [+157.06s] DEBUG: Starting session gnome-fallback as user phillipsa [+157.06s] DEBUG: Session 1715 running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-session gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback [+157.09s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/972484/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
