Description of problem:

consolehelper does not work when the LANG environment variable is set to "es_ES.euro".

My /etc/sysconfig/i18n config file looks like this:

LANG="es_ES@euro"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

When I try to run any consolehelper based application (wireshark in example), I don't get the expected pop-up window asking me to provide the root password.

/var/log/secure file shows this:

Feb 21 19:07:45 macondo userhelper[2142]: pam_unix(wireshark:auth): conversation failed
Feb 21 19:07:45 macondo userhelper[2142]: pam_unix(wireshark:auth): auth could not identify password for [root]

However, setting LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 everything works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

usermode-1.102-1.fc12.i686

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Set LANG="es_ES@euro" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and reboot the box.
2. Open a terminal and run any consolehelper-based application (wireshark, system-config-display, system-config-services, etc.).

  
Actual results:

No pop-up windows is get to provide the root password, and the invoked application is not run.

/var/log/secure shows these entries:

Feb 21 19:07:45 macondo userhelper[2142]: pam_unix(wireshark:auth): conversation failed
Feb 21 19:07:45 macondo userhelper[2142]: pam_unix(wireshark:auth): auth could not identify password for [root]

Expected results:

A pop-up window should appear in order to provide the root password.


Additional info: