Bug 388247 – x11-misc/lightdm has localization problems

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Misha 2011-10-23 18:31:28 UTC]

I'm using funtoo. and have set locale as en_US-UTF8 and added russian support. after i installed lightdm i get locales like that:
~locale
LANG=

LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

and when i run locale-gen && env-update && source /etc/profile , it shows right one in that terminal, but after reboot or if i open new terminal it's the same.

but after i switched to onsole (alt+ctrl+f1) i have right one there. So i restarted computer with GDM it was fine. so i assume it happens only with LightDM. i don''t know if it's OS related bug or LightDM bug



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set LightDM as default display manager in /etc/conf.d/xdm
2. boot with it
3.here we go



Anything more i should provide? Btw i use ~amd64 system. And it's latest lightdm so i can't tell of earlier versions

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-10-23 18:37:18 UTC]

Try lightdm-1.1.0-r1, as reporting bugs for older version with same KEYWORDS is kind of pointless

[Comment 2 Fabian Köster 2011-10-23 21:16:14 UTC]

I am also experiencing this problem with x11-misc/lightdm-1.1.0-r1.

This problem does not occur with x11-misc/slim.

[Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-10-24 07:36:31 UTC]

Not sure if this is a Gentoo specific problem. It seems to me that it is not. Can you please report it to upstream developers?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm

I searched for similar bugs but I couldn't find any

[Comment 4 Fabian Köster 2011-10-24 07:45:14 UTC]

I think this one fits quite well:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/797249

[Comment 5 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-10-24 07:47:10 UTC]

Ooops yeah

[Comment 6 Fabian Köster 2011-10-24 07:50:44 UTC]

Oh, just noticed it is a dup (of [1]) and it is already fixed.

I am doing some investigation here...

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/793366

[Comment 7 Fabian Köster 2011-10-24 08:00:32 UTC]

I think the right way on Gentoo to set the locale system-wide is to put something like this:

LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="C"

into /etc/env.d/02locale.

But LightDM does not seem to use this values, the greeter's interface is still English and the locale is also not forwared to the user's session.

But I do not know how to solve this issue correctly.

[Comment 8 Fabian Köster 2011-10-24 08:04:16 UTC]

There is also a bug-report in Ubuntu regarding this issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/794315

[Comment 9 Misha 2011-10-25 07:36:05 UTC]

as i understand and checked on ubuntu 9 i have one at work). it's using by default ~/.dmrc with syntax :
cat ~/.dmrc 

[Desktop]
Language=en_US.utf8
Layout=us
Langlist=en_US:en
LCMess=en_US.UTF-8
Session=xubuntu


as i'll get home i'll try to make similar file with configs and re-check. i would post results. if it work, maybe we should add to ebuild the autogeneration of that file from /etc/env.d/02locale. But still it wouldn't be right but just workaround as it's not gentoo's way of locales config. So we need to wait till developers change it.

[Comment 10 Denis I. Polukarov 2011-11-01 06:50:53 UTC]

This problem on "~arm" with x11-misc/lightdm-1.0.5[gtk introspection branding -qt4].
xxx@ac100 ~ $ eselect locale list
Available targets for the LANG variable:
  [1]   C
  [2]   en_US.utf8
  [3]   POSIX
  [4]   ru_RU.utf8 *
  [ ]   (free form)
xxx@ac100 ~ $

[Comment 11 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-11-05 01:44:15 UTC]

This should be fixed in 1.0.6-r1

[Comment 12 Fabian Köster 2011-11-06 22:18:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #11)
> This should be fixed in 1.0.6-r1

Can confirm it works for me with version 1.0.6-r2 and ~/.dmrc given by Misha. Thanks!