Bug 450052

Summary:	GDM login unsets configured system-wide envars
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Horne <john.horne>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	jmccann
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	cschalle, rstrode
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Description John Horne 2008-06-04 23:05:22 UTC

Description of problem:
We modified /etc/sysconfig/i18n to set LANG and LC_COLLATE.
Logging in at runlevel 3 (or via a vt) and both vars are set correctly for users.
Logging in at runlevel 5 (via gdm), and only LANG is set. LC_COLLATE is unset.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.22.0-5.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Modify /etc/sysconfig/i18n to set LC_COLLATE="C"
2. Log in via gdm, then type in 'echo $LC_COLLATE'. It will be unset.
3.
  
Actual results:
LC_COLLATE is unset.

Expected results:
LC_COLLATE should be set according to the value in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.
As mentioned, running a system at runlevel 3 and this works okay.

Additional info:
Problem was discussed on Fedora users list:
   https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg00233.html

I did some testing by putting simple debug messages at the start/finish of
~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile. These showed that
under runlevel 5 /etc/profile was run twice. The first time, it ran the
/etc/profile.d/lang.sh script and set both LANG and LC_COLLATE correctly. The
second time it ran, LC_COLLATE had been unset, and despite running
/etc/profile.d/lang.sh it was not set again.
Testing showed that the first call of /etc/profile was made by 'init' (pid 1).
The second call was made by 'gdm-session-worker'. Hence this problem was logged
against gdm.
I do not know what causes LC_COLLATE to become unset, or if there is some other
process being run between the two calls to run /etc/profile.

As far as I can tell the problem exists in Fedora 7 and 8 as well.



John.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-06-23 15:43:20 UTC

dhcp-4.0.0-16.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

Comment 2 John Horne 2008-06-24 09:02:47 UTC

Okay... but what has DHCP got to do with this? I haven't got DHCP installed on
my system.


John.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-06-24 14:11:34 UTC

That was a mistake.  The dhcp developer probably typed the wrong bug number in.

Your issue should be fixed however in initscripts-8.74-1.fc9

Is it?

Comment 4 John Horne 2008-06-24 15:05:02 UTC

No, not fixed. I'm currently using initscripts-8.76.2-1.x86_64.



John.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 01:24:29 UTC

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Comment 6 John Horne 2009-07-06 20:16:04 UTC

Tested and fixed in Fedora 11.

initscripts-8.95-1.x86_64




John.