Package: locales Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11
I use debian testing, dist-upgraded last week.
I've been using the no_NO (Norwegian) locale for a long time. I want to switch to using utf-8, so I tried using the no_NO.UTF-8 locale. I have of course generated this with locale-gen. This is the _only_ choice of norwegian locales when running localeconf, someone who use localeconf and don't know about /etc/enironment could get a lot of trouble:
Some programs, such as mlterm, works fine with this locale.
But many kills the xserver when I start them, that isn't exactly fun and makes the UTF-8 locale unuseable.
gimp and powershell are among the programs that cause this. I straced gimp, and it seemed to be surprised that the X server disappeared. The trace ended with ERROR **: X connection to :1.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). So gimp didn't crash, but tricked X somehow.
Seems like it doesn't matter what locale the X server runs under. I can run X with no_NO.UTF-8 and set LANG=no_NO in an xterm, gimp and others will then run fine. Running gimp (or others) with LANG=no_NO.UTF-8 cause that X crash though.
I am not sure that this is the correct package for which to report the bug, but the locale is a common problem here. Many different (but not all) programs cause the X crash with this locale. And it happens with at least three different kinds of xservers: The matrox xserver, the framebuffer xserver, and the radeon xserver.
I am using the experimental xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk in order to get useable opengl support for tuxracer. I use linux kernel 2.6.2.
Helge Hafting
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