gdm is not translated

[Patrice Vetsel]

Binary package hint: gdm

Under Hardy, gdm 2.20.2-1ubuntu2 is not translated in french. I must select french language, but after reboot gdm remain untranslated.

Steps :
Install hardy 20080104.
Use French preferences (at boot/keyboard/language)
After installation reboot -> gdm is in english (keyboard is in french)

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Still available under alpha3 or daily iso 20080119 alternate i386

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, to be confirmed by someone with similar setup.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gdm is correctly translated on my hardy installation

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Sebastien : do you have tested a clean/fresh hardy installation in french ?

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

I can confirm this bug under :
my notebook
my computer
under vmware
under virtualbox

And with or without Internet connection (download of french support language during installation)

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

I can confirm this bug doing an spain/espanol installation too.

Joke : Am I the only man in the world testing alpha isos not in english ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you have language-pack-gnome-fr-base installed and which version?

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Doing a fresh hardy desktop i386 installation in french, without Internet connection, I have :
1:8.04+200080119

When gdm is launched, i suppose that it use an environment variable to select language ? Wich one ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it uses the environment configuration and pam_getenv -l LANG and pam_getenv -l LANGUAGE

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Ok so here, under Gutsy :
pam_getenv -l LANG ->fr_FR.UTF-8
pam_getenv -l LANGUAGE -> nothing
echo $LANG ->fr_FR.UTF-8

Under Hardy :
pam_getenv -l LANG -> nothing *** PROBLEM ?! ***
pam_getenv -l LANGUAGE -> nothing
echo $LANG ->fr_FR.UTF-8

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that doesn't look like a gdm bug

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Is this related to or caused by bug #185947?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdm - 2.20.3-0ubuntu3

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gdm (2.20.3-0ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/gdm.init:
    - use /etc/default/locale to set LANG and LANGUAGE (lp: #180751)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:28:40 +0100