Comment 3 for bug 1887252

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 10:45 AM Daniel van Vugt
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> ** Tags added: jammy lunar
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887252
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> Title:
> config-error-dialog.sh should pass --no-markup
>
> Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I modified my ~/.profile to call "logger". This resulted in in
> producing some output on stderr like
>
> ```
> <13>Jul 11 13:02:46 /usr/sbin/lightdm-session[1408]: profile sourced ...
> ```
>
> This showed an empty zenity prompt.
>
> Logs suggest zenity was failing because it was treating `<13>` as
> pango markup.
>
> ```
> from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 3 char 6: “13” is not a valid
> ```
>
> We should not assume the error message strings contain valid markup,
> since their source is unknown.

So, what should be the appropriate bug fix method in this scenario?

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Best,
Zhao