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I changed my system language to Geez, an Ethiopian language, and I was using it. But I forgot to reset or change the language setting to English when I logged out.

My intention was to use Geez one time only. Now I cannot login after rebooting. The language switch keyboard shortcut Super+Space does not switch the language on the login screen. My password is not recognized now because the Geez layout is being used and my password is English. I tried many things through GRUB shell.

I tried to change the language setting using Grub. I tried to change, I changed to LANG = en_US.UTF-8 which was LANG=am_ET.UTF-8, LC_ALL=C, LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 which was ET. Most of the environment variables changed to US from ET. I checked by echo $LANG and it shows the change. But when I reboot the language never change. I am believing the problem is caused after I changed the language. The desktop is Gnome.

How can I fix this?

David Foerster
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    Please advise us, specifically, exactly what you tried through GRUB shell, and the result. Specificity is essential in troubleshooting. – K7AAY Jul 16 '18 at 23:31
  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Could you please [edit] to explain *what exactly* you changed *where exactly*? What's the output of locale and the content of /etc/default/keyboard and /boot/grub/grub.cfg (for long listings you can use a pastie service and add the link to your question)? Thanks. – David Foerster Jul 22 '18 at 06:49

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