If a watchdog entry should be written during a different MySQL table is locked it will fail with MySQL error "Table 'watchdog' was not locked with LOCK TABLES". If a watchdog entry should be written during an open transaction and the transaction will be rolled back, the watchdog entry will be removed as well. Both cases could be avoided if we use a dedicated database connection for writing watchdog entries.
The solution is to declare a dedicated database connection which will not be established until required.
If a watchdog entry is written as part of a transaction it should probably be rolled back with that transaction. But for entries of severity WATCHDOG_ERROR or above we should assume that they should be always written. But his behavior has to be optionally configurable in settings.php.
Original issue: https://drupal.org/node/298768
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There is a Drupal 7 contrib module that "lets the administrator see all administration pages in her preferred language" and which could be ported to Backdrop: https://www.drupal.org/project/...
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)
@stpaultim – You're right: my approach affects also the main menu. I guess, because menus are also considered as user interface (not as content). @findlabnet – If I didn't miss anything,...
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)
Go to the account edit of the desired user. On the horizontal tab below "Region and Language," select "English" or another language. WFM.
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)