On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:20:36PM +0100, Ole Laursen wrote: > F�lix Blanco Mart�n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > I do not know if the LANG problem is solved in gdm as I hadnt > > > > > looked > > > > > into it. There was a pam problem that was fixed in this version. I > > > > > will > > > > > keep you all informed when the lang is solved. > > > > > > > > It seems the problem has been fixed. > > > > > > I thought so too. But I was fooled by the fact that the environment is > > > loaded when you restart GDM as root. Reboot, then English again. > > > > I have restarted GDM as root and the problem does not appear. > > Furthermore, it now recognizes the locales and GDM itself is in Spanish. > > Yes, that what was I was trying to say. :-) > > When you restart GDM as root, your shell has read /etc/environment. So > it speaks the language set by LANG. But if you reboot the machine, it > is back to English. At least for me, it is.
This reflects my experience, sometimes it is in the correct locale, sometimes it revert to the C one, altough i did not yet find any pattern to it. Friendly, Sven Luther
