Ubuntu
aptdaemon package

dpkg logs shown in Portuguese even though system language is English

Bug #1987668 reported by Luís Infante da Câmara on 2022-08-25

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This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	aptdaemon (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In a fresh Ubuntu Kinetic VM installed with English locale, Portuguese keyboard and timezone Europe/Lisbon, the dpkg logs shown by update-manager are in Portuguese. This is a serious bug because the system language is English and there are many people residing in Portugal that do not understand Portuguese.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: update-manager 1:22.04.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.22.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Aug 25 14:52:17 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-08-25 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Alpha amd64 (20220825)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Luís Infante da Câmara (luis220413) wrote on 2022-08-25:

#1

Aptdaemon.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (58.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (24.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (98.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.txt Edit (26.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GsettingsChanges.txt Edit (324 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote on 2022-08-25:

#2

Tentatively reassigning to aptdaemon. LANG is en_US.utf-8 but it seems to have set locale for dpkg differently.

What does /etc/default/locale contain?

affects:	update-manager (Ubuntu) → dpkg (Ubuntu)
affects:	dpkg (Ubuntu) → aptdaemon (Ubuntu)
Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2022-10-25:

#3

[Expired for aptdaemon (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Expired

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Gonçalo Cruz (gncruz) wrote on 2023-05-02:

#4

I am also affected by this bug. My software updater details start with 4 lines in Portuguese about templates and the rest is in English.

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Gonçalo Cruz (gncruz) wrote on 2023-05-02:

#5

/etc/default/locale contains:

# File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pt_PT.UTF-8"

I am running Ubuntu 22.04.

Luís Infante da Câmara (luis220413) on 2023-09-01

Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status:	Expired → Confirmed

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