Unable to set LC_COLLATE system-wide

John Horne john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk
Thu Jun 5 12:08:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:58 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> 
> > The trouble is I do not know what the login sequence is when logging
> > into an X window system. As such, I cannot say what is being run between
> > the first run of /etc/profile and the second.
> 
> It's not only X itself, it's the whole desktop environment. In principle
> you can follow the breadcrumbs via the man pages, but this line
> (in /etc/profile etc.) will add more info to your debug comments and
> might be useful:
> 
> echo This shell called from `ps -p $PPID -o comm=`, pid=$PPID >> /tmp/BASH_DEBUG
> 
Runlevel 3 shows 'login' being used; runlevel 5 shows that 'init'
calls /etc/profile first, and then 'gdm-session-worker' calls it again.

> > 
> > Since I'm a bit stumped as to where to go from here, but it definitely
> > seems that something 'odd' is going on, I think perhaps this should go
> > up to bugzilla?
> 
> Could be. It certainly doesn't seem to be doing what it says on the tin.
> 
Bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450052


John.

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