Bug 998200 - export LANG=C in user .bashrc blocks gnome3
Summary: export LANG=C in user .bashrc blocks gnome3
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-18 08:42 UTC by Soren Wacker
Modified: 2015-02-17 16:48 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 16:48:48 UTC
Type: Bug
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Output of /var/log/messages (20.13 KB, text/plain)
2013-08-18 08:42 UTC, Soren Wacker
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Description Soren Wacker 2013-08-18 08:42:52 UTC
Created attachment 787741 [details]
Output of /var/log/messages

Description of problem:
I am using a german F19. I made the entry export LANG=C in my user .bashrc to have an english bash environment. I noticed, after reboot the system asked me to change the folder names to english standard e.g. Dokumente → Documents. 

It worked fine for around a week, however yesterday I hibernated my system (as usual) and after waking up the system it showed me a black background with a mouse. Nothing else. I looked into /var/log/messages. Then searched some forums and found a hint with 'locale' which gave me something like:

LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENT

So I removed the line in the .bashrc and the system was able to boot properly. 

Now `locale` gives:
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Expected results:
The system should be able to boot and give a proper error message. The .bashrc should not prevent the system to be used.

Additional info:
my output of /var/log/messages is attached

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