Bug 853834
| Summary: | Login screen says [Invalid UTF-8] | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stef Walter <stefw> |
| Component: | gdm | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | christianklomp, christoph.bodner, rstrode |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2015-02-17 14:26:53 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Stef Walter
2012-09-03 05:44:00 UTC
This bug is reproducible with F18. I could also reproduce this bug in Fedora-18-beta. Then I discovered the following workaround when typing in as root:
# localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8
Before that, it was "UTF-8" instead of "utf8" and 'locale' still says:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
So I am a bit confused when to spell UTF-8 and when utf8 in configuration strings. At least we can prove now that 'localectl' is involved with this bug.
In addition to the workaround described above, I should have mentioned that I had to do some additional steps:
# cd /etc/X11 && grep -r UTF-8
Then two files appeared and I changed "UTF-8" to "utf8" everywhere. And, of course, after a new login 'locale' said: LANG=en_US.utf8
Therefore, I would suggest that all package maintainers make a decision of what to use in the future, either UTF-8 or utf8 but not both versions intermixed. Many programs (e.g. browsers) understand both versions and it was certainly a good idea GDM could do the same.
For completeness, I must admit that I did a yum distro-sync from Fedora 17 to 18. Maybe a fresh installation works better. LiveCD uses LightDM instead of GDM which does not have this bug.
The workaround works but in my case gdm still failed (no UTF or encoding message any more though) because of a autologon bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=881896). I did also upgrade from F17 to F18 but also see this in a F18 vm (which is not a F17 upgrade). This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19 This message is a notice that Fedora 19 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 19. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '19'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 19 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 19 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-01-06. Fedora 19 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |