Bug#834951: gnome-shell: Mixed localizations

[Andreas Kloeckner]

Andreas Kloeckner <inform at tiker.net> writes:

> 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?

FWIW, I installed dbus-user-session just to see what that would do, and
the issue has remained the same.

Andreas