Bug#282729: gdm: GDM does not find UTF8 language in the gnome-session

[Parienti M.]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: l10n


Gdm proposes the right list of available language (so this bug does not seem 
to be linked to 277953), but when I choose the language fr_FR.UTF-8 (or 
fr_FR.UTF-8@euro), I got an error message saying "Language fr_FR.UTF-8 does 
not exist, using system default".

But the locale fr_FR.UTF-8 works perfectly when I enter into X using the
startx command line from console.

I try the gnome-session and the openbox environment from gdm, and I get
the same error in both case.

Curiously, if I choose the locale "de_DE.UTF-8" I get no error in gdm.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=french, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8@euro)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser          3.59                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  aterm [x-termina 0.4.2-10                Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  aterm-ml [x-term 0.4.2-10                Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  debconf          1.4.40                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg             1.10.25                 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gksu             1.2.2-1                 graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session    2.8.1-2                 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [ 2.8.0-2                 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2     2.3.16-6                Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0      1.8.0-3                 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1         2.4.18-1                Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudiofile0    0.2.6-4                 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0     2.8.0-3                 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0   2.8.0-2                 The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0       1.0.2-1                 A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6            2.3.2.ds1-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco3        0.6.0-2                 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libesd0          0.2.35-2                Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4      2.8.1-4                 GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11      1.2.0-10                LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0      1:2.4.0-1               Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.4.7-1                 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring 0.4.0-2                 GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0      2.8.0-3                 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2- 2.8.0-1                 A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0     2.8.0-3                 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0   2.8.3-2                 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11      1.0.16-12               GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0    1.0-1                   library for common error values an
ii  libgsf-1         1.10.1-1                Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0      2.4.13-1                The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6          4.3.0.dfsg.1-8          Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62        6b-9                    The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2        1:2.10.2-1.1            libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules   0.76-22                 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime   0.76-22                 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g         0.76-22                 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0    1.6.0-2                 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0         1.7-5                   lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2       2.8.1-1                 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1      1.18-2                  SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6           4.3.0.dfsg.1-8          X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2       0.2.10-4                Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0         7.6.dbs-6               Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6         4.3.0.dfsg.1-8          X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6         4.3.0.dfsg.1-8          X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2          2.6.11-5                GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-wind 1:2.8.6-1               A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  mlterm [x-termin 2.8.0.cvs20040403-2     MultiLingual TERMinal
ii  openbox [x-windo 3.2-5                   Standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  rxvt [x-terminal 1:2.6.4-6.2             VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
ii  xbase-clients    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8          miscellaneous X clients
ii  xfwm4 [x-window- 4.1.99.1+cvs.20041114-1 window manager of the Xfce project
ii  xlibs            4.3.0.dfsg.1-8          X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-termina 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8          X terminal emulator
ii  xterminal [x-ter 0.1.10-1                The Terminal emulator application
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.2-3               compression library - runtime

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