Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88252
doesn't start with GUI
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:50 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (BDP) Description of problem: Starting redhat-config-date from a running X-Server produces the following error: --- (redhat-config-date.py:4429): Gdk-WARNING **: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID contains invalid UTF-8 redhat-config-date requires a currently running X server. --- Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-date-1.5.9-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run redhat-config-date 2. 3. Actual Results: see error Expected Results: what? Additional info: Above warning comes with EVERY redhat-config-... tool. Some start, some don't. redhat-config-date doesn't. redhat-config-users does.
What are the contents of the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file? I am not seeing this behavior on my test machines.
There's no such file on my system. I checked all 3 CDs from RH9. There's no package, providing this file. What should be in it?
The /etc/sysconfig/i18n file is created by the installer during installation, so it's not in any package. If this file is not present, the system has no way of knowing what language the system should use. Since you are emailing me from a .de domain, I'm assuming that you want your system to use German as the default language. If so, your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file should look like: LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" SYSFONTACM="utf8" Creating the file with those contents should allow redhat-config-date to run. However, a bigger question is how that file got deleted. I can't really help answer that question. Please reopen this bug report if the problem doesn't go away after creating the file.