Package: gdm Version: 2.20.11-4 Severity: normal # dpkg-reconfigure locales Generating locales (this might take a while)... de_DE.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... done Generation complete.
# cat /etc/default/locale # File generated by update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE="en_US:en" # locale -a C de_DE.utf8 en_US.utf8 POSIX # /etc/init.d/gdm start On the login screen, select language "German", then continue to log in. After login (just before starting the session), the following error window pops up and the resulting language and locale settings are back to the global system default: "Language de_DE.UTF-8 does not exist; using System default" The problem here is "UTF-8" in the locale name, the correct name (see above) is "de_DE.utf8". Patching /etc/gdm/locale.conf fixes that: -German(Germany) de_DE.UTF-8 +German(Germany) de_DE.utf8 After restarting gdm, selecting the language, and logging in, the xsession is started correctly and LANG and the locale settings are configured as expected. I'm not sure if this is the correct fix. If so, all the other locales in this file should be fixed too. Another idea would be to add aliases for all locales, i.e. add "foo.UTF-8 foo.utf8" to /etc/locale.alias. And another one would be to normalize the locale name before validating the language... -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii gksu 2.0.2-5 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-terminal [x- 2.30.2-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdmx1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii librsvg2-2 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii librsvg2-common 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxi6 2:1.3-6 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii metacity [x-window 1:2.30.1-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager ii twm [x-window-mana 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager ii xfce4-session [x-s 4.6.2-3 Xfce4 Session Manager ii xfce4-terminal [x- 0.4.5-1 Xfce terminal emulator ii xfwm4 [x-window-ma 4.6.2-1 window manager of the Xfce project ii xterm [x-terminal- 261-1 X terminal emulator Versions of packages gdm recommends: ii gdm-themes 0.6.2 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag ii whiptail 0.52.11-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.7.7-13 nested X server ii xserver-xorg 1:7.5+8 the X.Org X server ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro Versions of packages gdm suggests: ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.30.3-5 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii pm-utils 1.3.0-3 utilities and scripts for power ma -- John Feuerstein <j...@feurix.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
