Bug#444483: xdm: pam_env variables are not passed on to x-window-manager
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 21:00:26 -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote:
> 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.)
>
I can't reproduce this (xdm 1:1.1.7-1):
$ cat /etc/default/locale
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
FOO=bar
$ tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/6567/cmdline
/usr/bin/fluxbox
$ tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/6567/environ |grep FOO
FOO=bar
I'm not sure what's going wrong in your case. Can you add a call to
printenv in ~/.xsessionrc or ~/.xsession and see what you get in
.xsession-errors after logging in?
Cheers,
Julien
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