Bug#834951: gnome-shell: Mixed localizations

[Andreas Kloeckner]

Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 at 14:27:56 -0500, Andreas Kloeckner wrote:
>> I assume you mean user-1000.slice, since there's not much under
>> user at 1000.service, as you can see
>
> I did mean user at 1000.service. ssh-agent.service's pid 3601 is
> the only process in this category AFAICS, other than systemd.
>
> If you had dbus-user-session installed, there'd be more services
> "next to" ssh-agent, notably including dbus-daemon. The fact that you
> *aren't* using dbus-user-session rules out this being caused by that
> particular change, and makes it less likely to be systemd or dbus
> that is to blame.
>
>> Interestingly,
>> 
>>   │   ├─ 3761 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
>> 
>> has $LANG, but $LANGUAGE is missing
>
> That could be the culprit. Perhaps gnome-shell started before whatever
> it is that was responsible for setting LANGUAGE?

That would also explain why it appears to be intermittent. If it's a
race between the $LANGUAGE setter and the shell starting up, then
either could win at each time. What is supposed to be controlling that
startup order?

Andreas