[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#691446: lightdm: Inconsistent behavior when restoring default session and language

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Package: lightdm
Version: 1.4.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hello,

I have digging into the lightdm code for some time to address several issues
regarding storing and restoring the information about the default session
and language.

While I did that, I already discovered that lightdm does not consistently
store the session and language to ${HOME}/.dmrc [1] and also filed a wishlist
bug report to be able to choose between the mechanisms of ${HOME}/.dmrc
and AccountsService [2].

Today I stumbled over another incosistency regarding the handling of
the default session and language similar to #690899 ([1]) which is the
fact that lightdm always restores the default session from AccountsService
when available but never restores the default language from AccountsService
while it does restore both default session and language from .dmrc
when used.

I'm not sure whether this is intentional or not, but it's surely incosistent.
If lightdm decides to restore the default session through AccountsService
it should also do so for the default language.

I have written a patch which addresses this and also reported the bug
upstream [3].

Cheers,

Adrian


> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690899
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690898
> [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1071417

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                                3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                             0.4.5-3.1
ii  dbus                                   1.6.8-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.46
ii  libc6                                  2.13-35
ii  libglib2.0-0                           2.33.12+really2.32.4-2
ii  libpam0g                               1.1.3-7.1
ii  libxcb1                                1.8.1-1
ii  libxdmcp6                              1:1.1.1-1
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter]  1.1.6-2

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.7+1

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii  accountsservice  0.6.21-6
ii  upower           0.9.17-1

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