Comment 2 for bug 2005135

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 1:35 AM Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1887252 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887252
>
> Thanks for your report! It's a duplicate of bug #1887252, so I have
> marked it as such.
>
> But with that said, it would be great if you could read the discussion
> at the other bug, and let me know if you think that my alternative idea
> would help.

Thank you for letting me know your alternative nice solution. But
there are so many HTML Character Entities [1-2]. How does your method
deal with all these possible situations?

[1] https://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_entities.asp
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5068951/what-do-lt-and-gt-stand-for

> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1887252
> config-error-dialog.sh should pass --no-markup

Best,
Zhao

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> Title:
> The incorrect calling to zenity via
> /etc/gdm3/config_error_dialog.patch which should use the --no-markup
> option for cases when the error messages contain <.
>
> Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The Ubuntu-specific patch to gdm that ends up calling [zenity
> --warning](https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/tree/debian/patches/ubuntu/config_error_dialog.patch),
> has the following problem:
>
> The patch is probably trying to set the text to something that
> contains < which means the following text will be considered pango
> markup. It most likely is not pango markup though. So it need to use
> --no-markup when calling zenity to avoid the text being considered
> invalid markup.
>
> See [here](https://discourse.gnome.org/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-
> proceed-message-on-login/13758/10?u=hongyi-zhao) for more detailed
> discussion on this bug.
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