Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.6-4 Severity: normal I've submit this bug to thinkfinger maintainer, however, it looks like a bug of xdm. You can see the original messages in : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469917 I'll redescript the situation below:
For I am a chinese user of debian, I set my default locale in /etc/default/locale as: cat /etc/default/locale LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 LANGUAGE="zh_CN:zh" and I login to X system with xdm. If I login with a password, the locale should looks like: LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh LC_...="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" While if I login with thinkfinger, the locale becomes: LANG="" LANGUAGE="POSIX" LC_...="POSIX" LC_ALL="" It seems like that thinkfinger would not read configures from /etc/default/locale. The maitainer of the thinkfinger said that he had tested xdm_1:1.1.6-4,login_1: 4.1.0-2 and gdm_2.20.3-2. only can reproduct this bug in xdm. So I think I should submit this bug to xdm for review. BTW:I've tried another finger pam package in experimental:libpam-fprint It seems that all the same as the thinkfinger: If I login from xdm with it, the locale set will miss Best regards -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xdm depends on: ii cpp 4:4.2.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii x11-common 1:7.2-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc ii xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-2 miscellaneous X clients xdm recommends no packages. -- debconf information: xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/xdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm