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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440371


           Summary: XIM script overwrites LANG variable incorrectly
           Product: openSUSE 11.1
           Version: Beta 3
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Basesystem
        AssignedTo: mfabian@xxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: jpr@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
                CC: mmeeks@xxxxxxxxxx, werner@xxxxxxxxxx, hpj@xxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


gdm (and xdm/kdm) executes /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, which executes/sources
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.common which executes/sources /etc/X11/xim.  Xsession
sets LANG based on the second parameter passed to it (which may not be the
default set in /etc/sysconfig/language).

The xim script executes a function called adduserenv to fix bug 235044, however
exec -l -a ${SHELL##*/} $SHELL -c printenv dumps the environment of a login
shell, which will use the default language set in /etc/sysconfig/language
because of /etc/profile.d/lang.sh unless a user has explicitly set LANG in
~/.profile.  Hence LANG will be reset to the default language every time - the
goal however was too only reset if ~/.profile explicitly set to override. 

Overall this approach is broken though, because if a user *explicitly* set a
different language in the gdm login screen, I don't think even ~/.profile
should over ride a more immediate choice.  Please make adduserenv only handle
INPUT method if anything at all

The gnome session itself used to work around this by finding GDM_LANG and
setting LANG again, but it no longer has this work around upstream.

I have straces if need be with debug echo's, but hopefully the above explains
it.


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