Bug#241607: gdm doesn't handle non US-ASCII encodings in gecos

Marcelo E. Magallon "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>, 241607@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 1 Apr 2004 20:08:33 -0600


Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: normal

 I have entries like:

    marcelo:x:1000:1000:Marcelo E. Magallón,,,:/home/marcelo:/bin/bash
    daniela:x:1001:1001:Daniela Magallón,,,:/home/daniela:/bin/bash

 when enabling the face browser I get blank usernames and gecos
 information.  Those names are ISO-8859-1 encoded.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.52           Add and remove users and groups
ii  aterm [x-terminal-emulato 0.4.2-10       Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  debconf                   1.4.20         Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                      1.10.20        Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gnome-session             2.4.2-2        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termina 2.4.2-7        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-3       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.4.1-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.4.3-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.4.3-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.4.0.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               2.0.1-11       Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.2.3-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.4.0-9        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.4.0-3        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.4.0.1-10     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.4.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common       2.4.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgsf-1                  1.8.2-6        Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.2.4-3        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0-7        Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.8.3-2      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules            0.76-16        Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime            0.76-16        Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                  0.76-16        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.2.5-2.1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.5.0-2        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0-7        X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0                  7.6-ipv6.1-3   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0-7        X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0-7        X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                   2.6.7-1        GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manage 1:2.6.5-1      A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  rxvt [x-terminal-emulator 1:2.6.4-6      VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
ii  wmaker [x-window-manager] 0.80.1-8woody1 NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0-7        X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulato 4.3.0-7        X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1-5      compression library - runtime

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