Package: gdm Version: 2.20.3-1 Severity: normal In the following situation:
- No /etc/default/locale file, or one that does not set any locale information, or does not touch e.g. LC_MESSAGES. - A user with sudo rights (or the root user) has different locale settings than what /etc/default/locale says. Then, if that user (re)starts gdm, the gdm he starts will run under different locale settings than the one started automatically at system startup. This is madness, and will give sysadmins (and users) grey hair and hard to understand inconsistent behaviour. In particular, if LC_MESSAGES is set in the starting shell, but /etc/default/languages doesn't set LANG, then gdm will take the value of LC_MESSAGES for sytem-wide default language. I therefore suggest that in /etc/init.d/gdm, if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then . /etc/default/locale export LANG LANGUAGE fi be replaced by: for e in $(set|egrep '^(LC_.*|LANG|LANGUAGE)='|sed 's/=.*//'); do unset $e done if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then . /etc/default/locale export LANG LANGUAGE fi -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
