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and subject line Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#733261: Bug#733261: lightdm lost
ability not to set LANG
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regarding lightdm lost ability not to set LANG
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: lightdm
Version: 1.8.5-2
Severity: normal
Hello,
It seems that LightDM lost the ability not to set the LANG environment
variable with the 1.6.3-1 -> 1.8.5-2 upgrade.
My system is configured as follows:
$ cat /etc/default/locale
LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
$ grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen
de_DE ISO-8859-1
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
I have disabled the language selector in
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf (show-language-selector=false).
Observed behavior: After logging in, the LANG environment variable is set
to "de_DE.utf8", which appears to be based on one of the entries (maybe
the first) in /etc/locale.gen.
Expected behavior: LANG unset, or set to something neutral like "C" or
"POSIX".
If I enable the language selector in the greeter application, I can choose
between German or English, but there is still no way not to set LANG at
all.
Best regards,
Martin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii consolekit 0.4.6-3+b1
ii dbus 1.6.18-2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52
ii libc6 2.17-97
ii libgcrypt11 1.5.3-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.4-1
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-9
ii libxcb1 1.9.1-3.1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1
ii lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter] 1.6.1-4
Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+4
Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
pn accountsservice <none>
ii upower 0.9.23-2+b1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf changed:
[LightDM]
[SeatDefaults]
display-setup-script=/etc/X11/Xsetup
[XDMCPServer]
[VNCServer]
/etc/lightdm/users.conf changed:
[UserAccounts]
minimum-uid=1000
hidden-users=nobody nobody4 noaccess
hidden-shells=/bin/false /usr/sbin/nologin
/etc/pam.d/lightdm changed:
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale
@include common-auth
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
@include common-account
session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad]
pam_selinux.so close
session required pam_limits.so
session optional pam_mail.so dir=~/Maildir nopen
session required pam_loginuid.so
@include common-session
session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad]
pam_selinux.so open
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
@include common-password
-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm
lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:27:41PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:15:45PM +0100, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:45:30PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:38:33PM +0100, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> > > > Package: lightdm
> > > > Version: 1.8.5-2
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > It seems that LightDM lost the ability not to set the LANG environment
> > > > variable with the 1.6.3-1 -> 1.8.5-2 upgrade.
> > > >
> > > > My system is configured as follows:
> > > >
> > > > $ cat /etc/default/locale
> > > > LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
> > > > $ grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen
> > > >
> > > > de_DE ISO-8859-1
> > > > de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > > > en_US ISO-8859-1
> > > > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > > >
> > > > I have disabled the language selector in
> > > > /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf (show-language-selector=false).
> > > >
> > > > Observed behavior: After logging in, the LANG environment variable is
> > > > set
> > > > to "de_DE.utf8", which appears to be based on one of the entries (maybe
> > > > the first) in /etc/locale.gen.
> > > >
> > > > Expected behavior: LANG unset, or set to something neutral like "C" or
> > > > "POSIX".
> > >
> > > Do you have a .dmrc? Can you paste the content?
> >
> > $ cat ~/.dmrc
> >
> > [Desktop]
> > Session=lightdm-xsession
> > Language=de_DE.utf8
> >
> > If I remove the file and restart lightdm, it is recreated with the same
> > content. After some experimentation, I found that lightdm keeps another
> > copy of the file in /var/cache/lightdm/dmrc. Removing both ~/.dmrc and
> > /var/cache/lightdm/dmrc/martin.dmrc resolves the issue!
>
> > While my immediate issue is resolved, I still find this behavior
> > unfortunate for three reasons:
> >
> > - Recreating a file a user has deleted from a shadow copy is probably as
> > surprising to many users as it has been to me. :-)
>
> It's actually not exactly what happens. The file from /var/cache is the
> last settings used by lightdm. They're used as a default, and are
> overriden by:
>
> - the last user-selected choice when it exists;
> - the menu-selected choice;
>
> In your case, it wasn't overriden by anything, that's all. The behavior
> changed in order to actuall correctly support overriding it, because
> most people actually want the locale to be set, not the opposite.
Thank you for the explanation. I'm closing the bug since I now see how the
behavior I've been looking for can be achieved.
Best regards,
Martin
--- End Message ---
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