Re: [gdm-list] ERROR 50 Unsupported key <greeter/Welcome[de]

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Bernt:

The error you show isn't really a problem.  If your system has
languages defined (GDM looks at LANGUAGE, LC_ALL, and LANG
environment settings to see what languages you want to use),
then GDM will loop through this list and display the Welcome
message in the language you select.

For each "language" in the list, it looks for a config value
called Welcome["language"].  So, if you put a Welcome[DE]
or "Welcome[de]" message in your config file, then it will display
that value instead of the default (probably English) welcome
message.  If you are using the default Welcome message, then
GDM should translate that for you so you don't need to use
Welcome[DE], but this is useful for users/distros who want to
change the welcome message to something non-default.

You don't really explain if you are having a problem, or if you
are just curious about what these error messages mean.  If you
are having a serious problem, then I don't think these error
messages are related.  If things are working okay, then you can
ignore these messages.

If you wanted to make the messages go away, you could do one of
the following:

+ Define a Welcome[DE] message in your config file

+ Change your system language so that DE and de are not returned
  when ve_i18n_get_language_list is called.  This function
  uses the LANGUAGE, LC_ALL, and LANG environment values on your
  system to determine the languages.  Though if you really want
  to use the DE language, you probably wouldn't want to do this.

Probably these messages shouldn't be listed as ERRORS, but in
most cases (when not dealing with translated strings like
Welcome and DefaultWelcome), not getting a return value for a
config key is an error.

Hope this makes things a bit more clear.

Brian


> I`m using gdm version 2.14.10.
>
> When I enable the debug/Enable I get in the logfile lines like
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Aug 17 20:05:40 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'VERSION'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new 
> connection fd 8
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'VERSION'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]:   Got response: 'GDM 2.14.10'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'GET_CONFIG 
> greeter/Welcome[de_DE] :1'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG 
> greeter/Welcome[de_DE] :1'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Error returning config key 
> greeter/Welcome[de_DE]
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]:   Got response: 'ERROR 50 
> Unsupported key <greeter/Welcome[de_DE]>'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'CLOSE'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'VERSION'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new 
> connection fd 11
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'VERSION'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]:   Got response: 'GDM 2.14.10'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'GET_CONFIG 
> greeter/Welcome[de] :1'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG 
> greeter/Welcome[de] :1'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Error returning config key 
> greeter/Welcome[de]
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]:   Got response: 'ERROR 50 
> Unsupported key <greeter/Welcome[de]>'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'CLOSE'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'VERSION'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new 
> connection fd 8
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'VERSION'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]:   Got response: 'GDM 2.14.10'
> Aug 17 20:05:41 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'GET_CONFIG 
> greeter/Welcome[de] :1'
> Aug 17 20:05:42 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG 
> greeter/Welcome[de] :1'
> Aug 17 20:05:42 localhost gdm[4768]: Error returning config key 
> greeter/Welcome[de]
> Aug 17 20:05:42 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]:   Got response: 'ERROR 50 
> Unsupported key <greeter/Welcome[de]>'
> Aug 17 20:05:42 localhost gdmgreeter[5056]: Sending command: 'CLOSE'
> Aug 17 20:05:42 localhost gdm[4768]: Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> How can I change my custom.conf so that I don`t get the Error 50?