Re: Package updates

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:20:36PM +0100, Ole Laursen wrote:
> Félix Blanco Martín <xuco@iespana.es> 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