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JayDoe

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Registered: 2014-09-20

Posts: 27

[SOLVED] Gnome lost regional settings after update

Hi,
I updated Gnome today and it somehow messed up a lot. Not that I cannot start the gnome-terminal anymore, also I lost all regional settings. And with this I mean, that in the Settings -> Region and Language -> Language I have now an "Unspecified [ANSI_X3.4-1968]" and no options in the list to change it. My Gnome is now a mixture between German and Englisch. Also, during every tab switch between apps, my Capslock is turned on...

Any ideas how to fix that? Is the language pack now in an additional package?

Thanks a lot
JayDoe

Last edited by JayDoe (2019-10-08 15:58:12)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,372

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome lost regional settings after update

glibc got updated as well which will have lead to locale regeneration. Did you ensure that you actually have the locales uncommented you are using? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ng_locales

If that isn't it post

localectl
locale
locale -a
sudo journalctl -b

in [ code ][ /code ] tags without the spaces.

Last edited by V1del (2019-10-08 15:43:38)

JayDoe

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Registered: 2014-09-20

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome lost regional settings after update

Thanks, that solved my problem. Somehow my /etc/locale.gen was totally messed up with some binary data... fixed it back and after reapplying my Gnome Settings, everything is back to normal.

JayDoe

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Registered: 2014-09-20

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome lost regional settings after update

Hmm weird, the same issue happened again. I just ran my pacman update and already saw the issue:

(  5/227) Aktualisiere glibc                       [######################] 100%
Generating locales...
  TZif2.

<..... some binary data ----->

...Try `localedef --help' or `localedef --usage' for more information.

The locale.gen was messed up again...

Anyone has an idea, why this is happening on updating my glibc?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,372

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome lost regional settings after update

What editor did you use to edit the text file? I suggest you check with something that shows you non-printable chars that you didn't accidentally introduce some garbage characters.

If you're unlucky you might also have some disk corruption issues though I'd find it weird if this is isolated to that one specific file, you might want to run a fsck on the filesystem and potentially a long SMART test and post the results of smartctl -a