I've actually sent him an email but got no answer. I've posted in debian-devel few days ago and nobody complained that GDM could source /etc/environment in the init script. That's an one-line patch (already tagged as patch in bts for more than a year)...
I think that if the maintainer doesn't take that, a NMU will be neecessary. Em Sex, 2003-08-29 às 14:33, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña escreveu: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:01:54PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Fabio Rafael da Rosa] > > > I upgraded sid two days ago, and starting X via gdm does not set the > > > environment variable I've set in /etc/environment. Anyone has the > > > same problem ..? > > > > It is probably a PAM configuration problem. You need the following > > line in the /etc/pam.d/ file used by gdm: > > Not really, I believe it's bug #133578 and #147091 and #192143. Feel > free to pester the maintainer, let's hope this gets fixed > (i.e. before sarge gets "frozen") > > Regards > > Javi