[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#330687: login: Locale not properly set

[Jamie Norrish]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.12-3
Severity: normal

I'm not sure if this is the package responsible for the behaviour I'm
experiencing, but I believe it's something from either pam or shadow
(the problem began on two machines after upgrades of only a few
packages, shadow's and pam's being common to both).

Locale information is no longer being set (no LANG in env, where
previously it listed en_NZ.UTF-8), and 'locale' returns an empty LANG
and LC_ALL, with POSIX as the value for the other variables. This
makes, for example, uxterm fail when called without options.

Running 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and regenerating the locales (I only
specify en_NZ.UTF-8) does not help. 'locale -a' lists 'en_NZ.utf8' as
well as 'C' and 'POSIX'.

Apologies if this is vague; I don't know what sets the locale
environment variables, nor what other information is relevant.

Jamie

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules                0.79-1     Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                0.79-1     Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      0.79-1     Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

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