[Bug 661946] New: twm called with incorrect options from gdm

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c0 Summary: twm called with incorrect options from gdm Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Milestone 5 of 6 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: ohering@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Outsourced Testing Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=406659) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=406659) twm.env.txt 11.4 milestone 5 on x86_64 For some reason the default gnome session does not display anything but a black screen and the default mouse pointer on my HP Probook 6555b. So I changed runlevel to 3, changed /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager:DEFAULT_WM from gnome to twm and changed runlevel back to 5. But twm did not start because the options passed to twm were wrong. twm is called like this: /usr/bin/twm de_DE.UTF-8 A locale string is not a valid option for twm. Attached is the output from this helper script: /usr/bin/twm #!/bin/bash ( echo "$0 $*" echo "$#" env ) &> /dev/shm/twm.$PPID.$$.txt exec /usr/bin/twm.bin -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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13 Jan 13 Jan

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c1 Vincent Untz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |vuntz@novell.com Component|GNOME |X.Org AssignedTo|bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo. |bnc-team-xorg-bugs@forge.pr |novell.com |ovo.novell.com Summary|twm called with incorrect |Xsession passes $LANG as an |options from gdm |argument to the wm (twm | |called with incorrect | |options from gdm) QAContact|qa@suse.de |xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge. | |provo.novell.com --- Comment #1 from Vincent Untz 2011-01-13 00:07:46 UTC --- Sounds like a bug in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession to me: it expects the display manager to pass the locale as an argument, but it doesn't remove it when calling $WINDOWMANAGER. FWIW, here's how gdm calls Xsession: exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession $1 $GDM_LANG If that's wrong, or if gdm should set LANG itself instead of relying on /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, please move back to GNOME. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c2 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |werner@novell.com Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #2 from Stefan Dirsch 2011-01-13 00:50:20 UTC --- Sounds like dup of Bug #656554 to me. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 656554 *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656554 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium AssignedTo|bnc-team-xorg-bugs@forge.pr |sndirsch@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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18 Jun 18 Jun

09:45

New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c3 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|DUPLICATE | --- Comment #3 from Stefan Dirsch 2012-06-18 09:45:52 UTC --- I was wrong. This has never been a duplicate. It is a different feature request to detect one of the options as $LANG and start the WM accordingly. Reopen. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c4 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEW AssignedTo|sndirsch@suse.com |werner@suse.com --- Comment #4 from Stefan Dirsch 2012-06-18 09:53:49 UTC --- Werner, I guess detecting an option as locale for the WM is rather error-prone. So I believe we need to decide whether to implement this feature request and revert the changes you did for bnc#656554 or set this one to WONTFIX.

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If that's wrong, or if gdm should set LANG itself instead of relying on /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, please move back to GNOME.

Also an option. ;-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c5 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tiwai@suse.com --- Comment #5 from Stefan Dirsch 2012-06-18 09:55:09 UTC --- *** Bug 765284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765284 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c6 --- Comment #6 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-06-18 13:30:49 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=495179) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=495179) etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.patch This small change should remove the appropriate argument from the command line. Please test out. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |sndirsch@suse.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c7 --- Comment #7 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-06-18 13:41:20 UTC --- Submit request id 125321 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c8 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoProvider|sndirsch@suse.com |tiwai@suse.com --- Comment #8 from Stefan Dirsch 2012-06-18 14:27:26 UTC --- Hmm. I didn't know that there is already code for detecting the locale. Takashi, can you give the patch a try? Thanks! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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19 Jun 19 Jun

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c10 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |ohering@suse.com --- Comment #10 from Stefan Dirsch 2012-06-19 13:56:57 UTC --- Olaf, can you? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c11 Olaf Hering changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|ohering@suse.com | --- Comment #11 from Olaf Hering 2012-06-19 16:45:25 CEST --- (In reply to comment #10)

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Olaf, can you?

I have tested the patch from comment #6 on an uptodate 11.4 installation. I changed /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager:DEFAULT_WM from gnome to twm. After that change no login is possible. Then I applied the patch, after reboot twm starts fine. Also logout and relogin works now if DEFAULT_WM is twm. But for some reasom gdm remembers that twm was there, even if I change DEFAULT_WM back to gnome and remove ~user/.dmrc. No idea if thats caused by this change, likely not. ... After some poking, the file /var/cache/gdm/olaf/dmrc must be removed... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c12 --- Comment #12 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-06-19 14:55:41 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11)

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After some poking, the file /var/cache/gdm/olaf/dmrc must be removed...

this is gdm and not the Xsession script -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 661946] Xsession passes $LANG as an argument to the wm (twm called with incorrect options from gdm)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c13 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #13 from Stefan Dirsch 2012-06-20 04:53:32 UTC --- Olaf, thanks for testing. SR is accepted now. Fixed for openSUSE 12.2. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661946#c14 --- Comment #14 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-06-29 17:00:07 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (661946) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/126630 Factory / xdm -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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