Bug#827595: gksu does not handle incorrect password properly depending on locale

[Michael Lange]

Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-9
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

when using gksu with german locale under IceWm environment (in case that
matters) after typing an incorrect password the gksu window does not show up
again for subsequent tries, but gksu just exits silently, leaving the user to
guess if they mistyped the password or the requested application has crashed in
the background.
I also noticed that none of the messages in the gksu window (with the exception
of the "Cancel"  button) are translated, though the .po file from the source
package seems to suggest that german translations exist. Maybe this indicates
that something with the detection of the locale settings in gksu goes wrong,
which then might result in the "incorrect password" handling error.
When I set LC_MESSAGES=C and type an incorrect password, gksu gives me three
tries to enter the correct password and finally shows a message telling me
about the wrong password, just as I would have expected.

Best regards

Michael



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  gconf-service             3.2.6-3
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii  libgconf-2-4              3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii  libgksu2-0                2.0.13~pre1-8
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libgnome-keyring0         3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0         1.36.8-3
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  sudo                      1.8.10p3-1+deb8u3

Versions of packages gksu recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring  3.14.0-1+b1

gksu suggests no packages.

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