Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#3563 closed defect (fixed)
vboxmouse driver changes locale -> should be fixed in SVN
| Reported by: | Fatih Asici | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 2.1.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description
vboxmouse module calls setlocale and changes X server's locale to user's locale instead of C. Then server makes comparisons in user's locale and that causes serious problems especially in Turkish locale. In Turkish, tolower("I") is not "i". So server converts "PCI" string to "pcı" (not "pci").
In order to reproduce the problem, add the following line to xorg.conf:
BusId "PCI:0:2:0"
Then set LC_ALL to tr_TR.UTF-8 and start xserver. That will fail; because it won't find the matching "Device" section. When vboxmouse module is disabled, server starts correctly.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
| Summary: | vboxmouse driver changes locale → vboxmouse driver changes locale -> should be fixed in SVN |
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I have not been able to reproduce this problem (I don't have a guest handy with X.Org server 1.4, and I had no success with X.Org 7.1 and with Server 1.5). However, I have removed the call to setlocale in vboxmouse, so hopefully this should be fixed in SVN now (should be in the public tree as of tomorrow).
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
I have tested with VirtualBox 2.1.4 + the svn patch r18055 and it seems fixed. Thanks.
comment:5 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Might I ask which guest this was, and specifically which version of X.Org server?