Re: [Tails-testers] Bug: Cannot chose different language for…

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Author: sajolida
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To: Tails list for early testers
Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] Bug: Cannot chose different language format
intrigeri:
> sajolida wrote (14 Jan 2016 10:07:03 GMT) :
>> Thanks for reporting this! I could reproduce it easily on my Tails as
>> well. This is what I got in the journal:
>
>> Jan 14 10:05:09 amnesia kernel: gnome-control-c[3873]: segfault at 0 ip
>> 00000000f5a2dcb9 sp 00000000ffad8280 error 4 in
>> libc-2.19.so[f59b3000+16e000]
>
> Same here. Thanks for the report!
>
> This looks like https://bugs.debian.org/743929.


Thanks for finding this out.

> At first glance, I'm not going to track it particularly in our
> Redmine, since:
>
> 1. it's likely an upstream bug, and there are indications that it may
>    be fixed in newer GNOME

>
> 2. even if this "list narrowing" usability improvement was working,
>    selecting a format doesn't work: it suggests that one restarts the
>    GNOME session, and regardless of what the user chooses, nothing
>    visible happens and the old settings are still in effect (yes,
>    perhaps we should simply hide this control center module, to avoid
>    proposing options that don't work; if someone says "yes, do that"
>    I'll file a ticket about it)

>
> 3. we document + support another, working (I think?) way to set
>    Formats: Tails Greeter


Full ack.