Bug#403928: Language selection problem

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 403928 gdm
retitle 403928 GDM has to be restarted to take new locales into account
thanks

Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 19:47 +0200, Alexander Vlasov a écrit :
> Package: gnome-session
> Version: 2.14.3-3
> 
> Today I faced strange problem with (I suppose) gnome-session:
> After generating new locales and choosing language via gdm menu for
> current session, gnome starts, but I receiving a borderless (ie it
> happens before starting window manager) window with a message: "Language
> <language-here> does not exist; using System default" and everything
> reverting to default language.
> 
> Locale itself works perfectly, i.e. I'm able to run 
> `LANG=<language-here> date' and I receive correct output.
> 
> I tried zh_CN, zh_CN.UTF-8, en_US, en_US.UTF-8 -- the same result.
> But ru_UA.UTF-8 works fine for me.

I've been able to reproduce this bug. This dialog is popped up by gdm,
and this is because you've added support for these languages (with
dpkg-reconfigure locales, I guess) without restarting gdm. If you
restart it or reboot, things should work fine.

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