Change language in Ubuntu tty2 login mode

I have login problem of this kind:

A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up (Xmin Xs/no limit)

Do when I press Alt+Shift+F2, so it going to login page and the problem is that I can not change language from Persian to English to insert my user and pass.

I already I changing the language at Ubuntu by pressing the Ctrl+Shift+Alt, but it doesn't work here.

So how can I change the language in this mode?

Update:I have this problem in advance boot option (safe mode), grub ...

I also tried to switch language by holding  (if I remember correctly) "the Alt + 122 at numpad" to type English yes at dpkg repair option.

1 Answer

It seems you have configured your system locale incorrectly.

Using the next command we could get list of available locales:

locale -a

In my case I have:

C
C.UTF-8
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IL
en_IL.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM
en_ZM.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
uk_UA.utf8

To get your current locales configuration run locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_TIME=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_NAME=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Login as root in your gui terminal, where you could change to English and do:

update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 && . /etc/default/locale

Make sure, you have us the first keyboard layout in /etc/default/keyboard

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
XKBLAYOUT=us,ua,ru
XKBVARIANT=,winkeys,
BACKSPACE=guess

If us not the first keyboard layout, make it the first and execute:

. /etc/default/keyboard

Also, try update-grub2 and update-initramfs -u after previous commands using.

If you could not get into your system because of wrong locales configuration, then

• boot from Live CD (Try without installing option in Ubuntu installation image)
• identify your root partition by sudo fdisk -l
• mount your root partition in read/write mode
• configure /etc/default/keyboard file as said previously

• add into /etc/bash.bashrc the next at the end:

  export LC_ALL= "en_US.UTF-8"
  export LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
  export LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8"

• try to boot into your system

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