Bug#195964: /etc/default/gdm is missing quotes

[Greg Kochanski]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-3
Severity: grave
Followup-For: Bug #195964

I found, upon rebooting my computer this afternoon, that GDM was
non-functional, and that /etc/init.d/gdm start would
fail.     I tracked it down to a bug in /etc/defaults/gdm,
which was missing quotes on the line that starts with
"LANG=".    Because of the missing quotes, the shell
attempted to execute "alone" as a command,
complained, and terminated.
/etc/defaults/gdm is sourced from /etc/init.d/gdm .

I did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday, so perhaps there was something
wrong in the upgrade?   I haven't rebooted in a while, so I have no
idea when the problem appeared.

/etc/default/gdm:

# GDM Defaults, source in the init script that starts GDM.  LANG setting is
# taken from the locales package by default.
LANG=Leave alone
export LANG


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.56                Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf              1.4.25              Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                 1.10.21             Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gksu                 1.0.7-1             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.4.2-5             The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.4.2-7             The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.16-5            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.6.1-2             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             2.4.16-1            Extended attribute shared library
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.ds1-12        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4          2.4.0.1-4           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.0.1-13          Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.4.1-2             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0          2.4.0-11            The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.4.0-3             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.4.0.1-12          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             1.9.0-1             Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.2.4-6             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2            1:2.10.2-1.1        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules       0.76-21             Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.76-21             Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.76-21             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.4.0-4             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  libselinux1          1.12-1              SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0             7.6.dbs-4           Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2              2.6.9-2             GNOME XML library
ii  powershell [x-termin 0.9-7               powerful terminal emulator for GNO
ii  sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20031104-5 A window manager for X11
ii  xbase-clients        4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.1.1-3         compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
  shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm