Bug#515905: gdm starts with the wrong keymap

[Gabriel Kerneis]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.7-5
Severity: important


Hi,

Since lenny was released and I upgraded my system with the new sid
packages, I face an important bug in GDM. At system startup, gdm is
launched with a qwerty keymap. But the only locale installed on my
system is fr_FR.UTF-8 and Xorg is configured to use "fr" as the default
keymap.

A few details:
- apart from the keymap, the rest of the interface is correctly
  localized, so it seems to be more a problem of the weird things done
  with setxkbmap in /etc/gdm/Init/Default than a problem of locale.
- by default, the selected locale is "last locale used". If I select
  either "French" or "System default", the keymap is changed to "fr"
  immediately. Even if I select "last language used" once again beyond
  this point, the keymap remains in "fr".
- if do not touch the locale selection menu and login using the qwerty
  keymap, the keymap is then correctly set to "fr" in my session.
  Moreover, in both cases, when I logout, the keymap stays in "fr".

Well, this is annoying but I'm describing an easy workaround, so why
tagging this as "important"? Because this bug does indeed render the
system unusable for some users. Namely, when:
- gdm is configured with a login browser,
- the user chooses its login name by clicking on it,
- then its password is rejected.
In that (real-life) example, the user has no clue what's going on
(remember, the interface is still in French). And gdm with a login
browser in designed for such (possibly unexperienced) users who will
then be locked out of the system.

So please, fix this bug to save my grand-mother ;-)

Regards,
                                        Gabriel Kerneis
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.24            Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                   2.0.0-8           graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session [x-sessi 2.22.3-2          The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-term 2.22.3-3          The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1               1:2.4.43-2        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1                1:1.0.2-3         X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.3-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.18.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.12-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules         1.0.1-5           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime         1.0.1-5           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g               1.0.1-5           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.22.4-2          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2             2.22.2-4          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common        2.22.2-4          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1            2.0.65-5          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-16          Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.4-2         X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6              1:1.0.2-3         X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                 2:1.2.0-2         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-man 1:2.22.0-2        A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-2         Tab window manager
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emul 241-1             X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  gdm-themes                   0.6.2       Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                     0.52.2-11.3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  xserver-xephyr | xnest       <none>      (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg                 1:7.3+18    the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                       2.22.1-2    Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages gdm suggests:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.22.3-2   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  locales                       2.7-18     GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  pm-utils                      1.2.4-2    utilities and scripts for power ma

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