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**nowshining** · Jun 20, 2008, 06:11 PM

Re: KDM service will not start after upgrade some packages

if u get no fix - i suggest removing kdm and installing gdm. I myself think kdm sucks compared to gdm.

**walfred** · Jun 21, 2008, 08:49 AM

Re: KDM service will not start after update locales [SOLVED]

Hi nowshining, you're right - that's a good choice too.
I did a standard Kubuntu installation, so kdm came automatically.
To tell you the truth, I've never had trouble with kdm. Suse uses it, but seems Suse has more experience handling kdm and locales than Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

Anyways, I found the trouble and it is not related to the upgrade I've done previously.
What happen is I installed a new locale to test my developing projects. That way, my /etc/default/locale was initially just
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

And nowadays is
#LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANG="pt_BR.UTF-8"

Yes, I'm Brazilian

So, that change breaks /etc/init.d/kdm because the script is not expecting two lines matching "LANG=" -> what a shame...

Question: Is it written anywhere that /etc/default/locale must have only one "LANG=" inside or it cannot be commented out?

That way, the code I posted before has to be change. I'll give you two options
$USESYSTEMLOCALE && sed -i "s|^#\?Language=.*|Language=`grep -re "LANG=" /etc/default/locale | grep -v "^#" | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "[\\"|.]" } { print $2 }'`|" $KDMCFG

or my favorite
$USESYSTEMLOCALE && sed -i "s|^#\?Language=.*|Language=`grep -re "LANG=" /etc/default/locale | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "[\\"|.]" } /^[^#]/ { print $2 }'`|" $KDMCFG

Modifications are bold-ed. Sorry because I cannot bold something inside [ code ] tags, that's why I change the convention presented on the first post.

Well, that's it. I hope it helps. Bye

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