karmic has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407300 Title: /etc/gdm/Xsession breaks LANGUAGE Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager: Fix Released Status in Ubuntu Translations: Fix Released Status in gdm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gdm source package in Lucid: Fix Released Status in gdm source package in Karmic: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm /etc/gdm/Xsession contains: if [ -n "$LANGUAGE" ]; then if [ "$LANGUAGE" != "$LANG" ]; then LANGUAGE="$LANG" fi LANGUAGE is not only an extension of LC_MESSAGES (not LANG), it doesn’t even have the same syntax as LANG. My locale settings (whom /etc/gdm/Xsession breaks): LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en I.e. “use fi for stuff like month names, paper size and units, but en for the UI strings and decimal numbers”. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jul 31 13:20:09 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: wl Package: gdm 2.27.4-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.23-generic-pae SourcePackage: gdm Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic-pae i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/407300/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp