Hi,

Anybody having issues with foreign languages on Scientific Linux 4.3 ?

Everytime I choose a foreign language font (eg hebrew, mandarin) from the 
menu on gdm, the X session crashes.

This only seems to happen for my pentium 4 machines. My older athlon xp 
machines are (so far) not affected by this.

A new install from the distro CDs does not have this problem. After 24 
hours and a yum nightly update, this language problem appears.

Can someone suggest how to debug X session problems ?

Thank-you in advance,

Chris Hunter



On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Chris Hunter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a machine with SL4x "rolling" install. I noticed selecting different 
> languages from the gdm greeter cause X11 to crash.
>
> I don't know when this problem first started, probably within the last two 
> weeks. Under a fresh "SL4x" install, the gdm languages menu works. After I 
> run "yum update" and reboot, it crashes Xorg/X11. I don't get any log 
> messages.
>
> I think this is related to the /usr/share/locale/locale.alias file which is 
> part of the glibc package.
> However, gdm uses a private copy /etc/X11/gdm/locale.alias which is not quite 
> the same format. I don't think there have been any errata for the glibc 
> package.
>
> Any suggestions how I can debug this ? Can increase the debugging level if I 
> run startx from the command line ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>

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Chris Hunter
Systems Programmer, Astronomy, Yale University
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