Gnome cannot run when switched to French language

augustin_meaulnes

Hi,
I am at my first install of Gentoo.
I have X running and gdm but when I log as regular user I get the gnome screen (blue background with a one eyed face) but nothing else. I mean no menu and no panel and it seems that the CPU is working at full charge.
On the contrary, if I log as root gnome works perfectly.
I need help.
Thank you.

augustin_meaulnes · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:07 pm Post subject:

Since my first attempt I did the following.
I logged as root
made a new user
switched to this user -> everything was OK
logged out
asked for a change in the language English -> French
tried to log in again
was asked if I wanted to have French for ever Answered "yes"
I had the problem anew!

pingufunkybeat · l33t Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 610

Can you switch to a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and use "top" to see what's using the CPU?

augustin_meaulnes · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:39 am Post subject:

Hi,
Thank you for helping me.
Here is the result of some tests

Quote:

udisks-daemon 23%
dbus-daemon 18%
dbus-daemon 5%
gnome-session 2.3%
among follower (around 0.8%) gnome-panel, polkitd,gvfsdgnome-power-man

and the graphical session is blocked on the screen background image (no menu and no panel)

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

it's an issue because of misconfigured local

you can :
1/ killall udiskdaemon
just to enter your session (you'll get the panel... coming after that)

2/ USE="-gdu" emerge -1 gvfs
remove usage of the automounter that bug with your local settings

3/ use utf for your local and check that one really exist
(i'm not in front of the computer that was having that issue, if you need more help i will check it on how i solve it)

augustin_meaulnes · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:08 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Thank you for helping me.

When I was in front of the gdm screen I did the following:

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

yeah bad me i don't remember but the offending name could be udisk-deamon-monitor or something like that, try look at the pid and kill pid instead
you should also see a dead dbus-something running around.

for the locale : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/fr/utf-8.xml

gvfs is the gnome virtual filesystem, and the gdu use flag enable automounting of fs
so, you've lost automount feature by disabling gdu.
you could re-enable it as soon as you avoid the bug by setting your locale

For the gdm in azerty look here
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6437086-highlight-console.html#6437086

augustin_meaulnes · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:13 pm Post subject:

augustin_meaulnes · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 7:44 pm Post subject:

From the thread I gave up.

Chiitoo · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:42 am Post subject:

There are numerous ways, but here's one to do it with the command emerge:

augustin_meaulnes · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:33 am Post subject:

OK, thanks. I used emerge --info <package> once but as it displayed a lot of info not directly related to the package, I didn't see that the info about the package was placed at the very bottom.
In fact my version is:

Chiitoo · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:53 am Post subject:

Yeah, the 1.7.7-r1 version is the most recent _stable_ version in Portage for the time being, and I've read that it still needs hal (the last version at that), so I'm not so sure about the -hal flag... but I'm really not experienced enough to say for sure, just thinking out loud here. ^^

And yeps, I agree. That Lang=fr_FR.UTF-8 should indeed be LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" at least if we go with what we can see here:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3
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Kindest of regardses.

augustin_meaulnes · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:44 am Post subject:

About LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" I had a look at /etc/env.d/02locale and the "" are present so I don't understand why local gives it with no "".
About hal, krinn's opinion would be welcome.