Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55663
locale config screws up rc.d/* files
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:24:14 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: System language and locale changed from English to Simplified Chinese then changed it back to English cause system screwed up rc.sysinit and some rc.d/* and rc5.d/*. typically when I open a terminal, got error message "bash: 9: command not found. Also after language and locale changed back to English, cann't resize any window, seems gnome screwed up also. gedit, VIM that can input chinese app crashes in English language and locale. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.when login, choose language simplified chinese 2.login, and choose yes for system warning message saying change locale to simplified chinese 3.logout 4.choose language English and locale English, log back in 5. maybe need to do it serval times Additional info:
A) Why do you think rc.d/* was "screwed up"? A login as a user can't change those files. I dont' know any reason why logging in as root would affect those files? B) Did you log in as a user or as root? B) Did you actually run the "locale_config" command, or was this the option to change the locale in GDM?
A) After changed language and locale, when system boots up, there are lots of error messages saying "/etc/rc.sysinit: 9: command not found" and other rc.d and rc5.d files like rc, rc5.d/S56xinetd etc. B) yes, I did login as root C) I used this option in GDM
I don't think this is related to changing your locale through GDM. Changing the locale in GDM involves: - Changing a GDM config option - Setting environment variables (LANG,GDM_LANG) when starting the session It doesn't change anything that would affect bootup. Are you sure you didn't accidentally add something to /root/.bashrc while runnng as root? If you didn't do it yourself, it's possible that something in our chinese environment has an "automatically edit your bash configuration" setup that causes problems when run for root. I'm assigning this to initscripts for now since that's where other similar bug reports would probably have been reported.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. I haven't seen any other reports of this in bugzilla.