Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.6-3 Severity: normal When I log in through xdm, I don't get $LANG set from /etc/environment as it is when logging in through login/ssh/etc.
Peeking into /proc, I see that the xdm, X and -:0 processes all have their $LANG set correctly, but x-window-manager doesn't. This is confirmed by replacing the latter with a shell script; see the attached output, which is indeed missing $LANG. (I'm quite a bit intrigued, as I did see that xdm tries to play nice with pam_env when grepping the code. Maybe the bug lies elsewhere in the X universe, but it's too big a universe for me to comprehend, and things work fine when running startx, so I'm filing against this package. Sorry if I'm wrong.) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xdm depends on: ii cpp 4:4.2.1-6 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii x11-common 1:7.3+2 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc ii xbase-clients 1:7.3+2 miscellaneous X clients - metapack xdm recommends no packages. -- debconf information: xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/xdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-hRhtVfVu7S,guid=89b2436c01ca73b6abbaf00046fd7cbb' DISPLAY=':0' HOME='/home/fbriere' IFS=' ' LOGNAME='fbriere' OPTIND='1' PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games' PPID='30290' PS1='$ ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' PWD='/home/fbriere' SHELL='/bin/bash' SSH_AGENT_PID='30329' SSH_AUTH_SOCK='/tmp/ssh-YQUOq30305/agent.30305' USER='fbriere' WINDOWPATH='7'
