Description of problem: Since our default console can't display wide chars currently, XKeepsCrashing should be run under LANG=C for Asian languages that use widechars. Steps to Reproduce: 1. make gdm crash continually on ja installed machine. Actual results: XKeepsCrashing run in ja, but text is completely unreadable on text VC. Expected results: Readable text.
Submitted upstream as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135387
Actually, it shouldn't be run in locale C... but a universal UTF-8 locale. Not sure if the line drawing characters for drawing the window will work with an ASCII-only locale such as C/POSIX. (unless "unicode_stop" script is invoked beforehand)
So, George has "fixed" this upstream by adding ConsoleCannotHandle config key. By default its switched off, and the set of languages are: ConsoleCannotHandle=am,ar,az,bn,el,fa,gu,hi,ja,ko,ml,mr,pa,ta,zh Jens, when we move to the new upstream version with the fix, are you happy to just switch on ConsoleCannotHandle with this list of languages. Also, have you had a chance to confirm the upstream fix works?
I was told through gnome bugzilla that a fix for this should now be in gdm cvs.
Doh, sorry missed comment 3. Yes I think that will be fine. :)
Also in reply to comment 3, no I haven't tested this yet. But ok, I can re-open if there should still be problems. :)