By passing wrong input as following: sudo update-locale LANGUAGE = en_US.UTF-8 result is: ... #LANGUAGE=en =
This "equal" sign that was added makes system completely unusable(can't run sudo anymore):
bentzy@bentzy-nb:~$ sudo vim /etc/default/locale sudo: pam_open_session: Bad item passed to pam_*_item() sudo: policy plugin failed session initialization
Fixed it booting from installation disk and fixing corrupted /etc/default/locale
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: locales 2.31-0ubuntu9 Uname: Linux 5.5.4-050504-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Tue Aug 25 09:36:03 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-17 (7 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: glibc UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
By passing wrong input as following:
sudo update-locale LANGUAGE = en_US.UTF-8
result is:
...
#LANGUAGE=en
=
This "equal" sign that was added makes system completely unusable(can't run sudo anymore):
bentzy@bentzy-nb:~$ sudo vim /etc/default/locale
sudo: pam_open_session: Bad item passed to pam_*_item()
sudo: policy plugin failed session initialization
Fixed it booting from installation disk and fixing corrupted /etc/default/locale
ProblemType: Bug generic x86_64 esult: skip ture: all
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: locales 2.31-0ubuntu9
Uname: Linux 5.5.4-050504-
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Aug 25 09:36:03 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-17 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: glibc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)