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, > > -- Chris Hunter Systems Programmer, Astronomy, Yale University [log in to unmask]