#Empty list to choose from when updating packages

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lost jewel
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I installed LMDE 7 and started the update. A window appeared asking me to select a keyboard layout. A large drop-down list appeared, but there were no names! I literally don't know what to choose because there are no names for the options to choose from, just white rectangles.

I deselected the layout and now updates in the update manager are not installed, the update is endless. This is clearly a bug that was also present on the virtual machine with LMDE 6/7.

My system language is set to Russian (Russian Federation).

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Perhaps I should have installed the language packs from the report manager before updating. I'll try reinstalling LMDE 7 and do that. If that doesn't help, I'll post a photo of what it looks like.

lost jewel
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I'll try reinstalling LMDE, but this time with English. I don't know if this is a bug, because there's already a choice on the next page: Arabic, Cyrillic etc.

lost jewel
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Why does it look like this in English? 😩 😩 😩

molten sage
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Try updating from the terminal

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Also I heard there is some problems with keyboard layout on wayland. In the terminal type

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

does it say wayland or x11 ?

grizzled coral
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@lost jewel ^

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my suspicion, as I said in #⛑triage is that you logged in specfially using the "Cinnamon on Wayland" option, and that is certainly imperfect.

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could also be a GPU issue causing it

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show result of inxi -SGxxx too please, from terminal

lost jewel
lost jewel
grizzled coral
lost jewel
# grizzled coral .

test@test:~$ inxi -SGxxx
System:
Host: test Kernel: 6.16.3+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.13 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7
dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: LMDE 7 Gigi base: Debian 13.0 trixie
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports:
active: DP-2 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:3e91 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: DP-2 model: Samsung S22D300 serial: HLLH601326 res:
mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 102
size: 477x268mm (18.78x10.55") diag: 547mm (21.5") modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.2.6-1~bpo13+1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL
GT2) device-ID: 8086:3e91
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

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I don't see any problems here. This didn't happen during an update in regular Linux Mint.

lost jewel
# grizzled coral .

Again, yes, everything is displayed in English. The problem is that the console doesn't support Russian, so there's nothing to choose from. I simply left the field blank, And on the second page, I selected the recommended option. Everything updated successfully, no problems.

grizzled coral
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oh, could it be a font issue, perhaps?

lost jewel
grizzled coral
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I know once I deleted or switched a system font on-the-fly (not knowing it was in use) then I got a lot of blank stuff

lost jewel
grizzled coral
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so put on English, then search up other regional language packs and fonts for such and install

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either from Software Manager, or if can't find there, from Synaptic package manager.