Package: gdm Version: 2.6.0.8-1 Severity: normal
If you have a UTF-8 locale, eg. en_GB.UTF-8, and a bad /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, then the dialog shown by XKeepsCrashing is garbled. This is because XKeepsCrashing needs to set the console mode to match the locale, so the correct line-drawing characters are shown. Below is a patch that does this. Regards Alastair McKinstry -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to ga_IE.UTF-8) Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.28 Package maintenance system for Deb ii gksu 1.2.5-3 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session 2.8.1-6 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 2.4.16-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.1-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.2-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-3.1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.12.2-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.8.1-3 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 1.22-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Input extension li ii libxml2 2.6.16-7 GNOME XML library ii metacity [x-window 1:2.8.8-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xterm [x-terminal- 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
--- XKeepsCrashing.old 2006-09-11 21:36:59.000000000 +0100 +++ XKeepsCrashing.new 2006-09-11 21:38:49.000000000 +0100 @@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ unset LC_MESSAGES fi +# If the locale is UTF-8, then the console must be so too, or we will +# get mojibake +CHARMAP=`locale charmap` +if test "$CHARMAP" = "UTF-8" +then + unicode_start 2> /dev/null || true +else + unicode_stop 2> /dev/null || true +fi + if test -x "$LIBEXECDIR/gdmtranslate" ; then GDMTRANSLATE="$LIBEXECDIR/gdmtranslate" else
