On 14.05.06 04:53:13, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 13 mai 2006 ? 23:13 +0200, Andreas Pakulat a ?crit : > > I'm also involved in the thread on debian-user-german regarding this > > issue and I'd like to second Norberts statement that gdm doesn't forward > > the locale information to the session. > > And I can assure you it does.
And I can assure you it doesn't, on my system. > > My /etc/default/locale contains: > > > > ,----[ locale ]- > > | LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > > | LANGUAGE=de > > `---- > > > > And after starting a failsafe session locale tells me LANG="" and > > LC_*="POSIX", so there surely is something wrong. > > Do you have anything in your ~/.dmrc ? Yes, normally it is: ,----[ .dmrc ]- | [Desktop] | Session=default `---- while at the moment (after logging into the xterm failsafe) it reads: ,----[ .dmrc ]- | [Desktop] | Session=GDM_Failsafe.XTERM `---- > > I also do not understand why it is so hard to remove the 3 lines form > > the init script and add 2 lines to the pam configuration of gdm. Just > > out of curiosity I added those 2 pam-env lines and that fixes the issue. > > This has already been explained in the same bug report. The pam stuff > overrides the per-user setting with a system-wide default, which is of > course the wrong thing to do. Well, actually it has been explained a bit more in depth in "another" one regarding the same thing. I wasn't aware that gdm has a menu for the user to choose a locale. Then yes, pam.d is not the right solution, but it seems that the reading in the init-script is not always sufficient. It seems like Norbert has it working too on his system for LANG, so there's a good chance something else is "wrong" here. I have no clue what could influence the "forwarding" though, I don't know too much about X11 session startup, i.e. what is done during this/which scripts are called. But I'd really like to find out what the problem is, so if you have any idea please tell me. Andreas -- Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
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