Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.7-5
Severity: important
Hi,
Since lenny was released and I upgraded my system with the new sid
packages, I face an important bug in GDM. At system startup, gdm is
launched with a qwerty keymap. But the only locale installed on my
system is fr_FR.UTF-8 and Xorg is configured to use fr as the default
keymap.
A few details:
- apart from the keymap, the rest of the interface is correctly
localized, so it seems to be more a problem of the weird things done
with setxkbmap in /etc/gdm/Init/Default than a problem of locale.
- by default, the selected locale is last locale used. If I select
either French or System default, the keymap is changed to fr
immediately. Even if I select last language used once again beyond
this point, the keymap remains in fr.
- if do not touch the locale selection menu and login using the qwerty
keymap, the keymap is then correctly set to fr in my session.
Moreover, in both cases, when I logout, the keymap stays in fr.
Well, this is annoying but I'm describing an easy workaround, so why
tagging this as important? Because this bug does indeed render the
system unusable for some users. Namely, when:
- gdm is configured with a login browser,
- the user chooses its login name by clicking on it,
- then its password is rejected.
In that (real-life) example, the user has no clue what's going on
(remember, the interface is still in French). And gdm with a login
browser in designed for such (possibly unexperienced) users who will
then be locked out of the system.
So please, fix this bug to save my grand-mother ;-)
Regards,
Gabriel Kerneis
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24Debian configuration management sy
ii gksu 2.0.0-8 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session [x-sessi 2.22.3-2 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-term 2.22.3-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-01.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 1:2.4.43-2Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.7-18GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-31.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdmx11:1.0.2-3 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglade2-01:2.6.3-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.18.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-02.12.12-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpam-modules 1.0.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.22.4-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii librsvg2-2 2.22.2-4 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii librsvg2-common2.22.2-4 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux12.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxau61:1.0.4-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml22.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library
ii lsb-base 3.2-20Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window-man 1:2.22.0-2A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager
ii xterm [x-terminal-emul 241-1 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
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