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Sorted out by Nicola Talbot on usenet group comp.text.tex:

The glossaries package comes with conditional commands for testing if a
key has been set. \ifglshasdesc not only tests for an empty description
but also tests if the description has simply been set to \nopostdesc:

I am working on a document where glossary entries are referred to from the index. This works, until I add conditional text, indicating whether a description was added or not. It looks like TeX falls into an unbounded recursion, but I cannot seem to wrap my head around this. Without adding an index ...

Ulrike Fischer sorted this out at usenet group comp.text.tex:

\makeatletter \newcommand\indexheaderspace{\par\nopagebreak\vskip 10\p@
\@plus 5\p@ \@minus 3\p@ \relax\@afterheading}
\makeatother \renewglossarystyle{indexgroup}{%
\setglossarystyle{index}%
\renewcommand*{\glsgroupheading}[1 ...

In a document with glossaries set in multicols, it often happens that the heading of a group, say 'A', ends up on the bottom of a column, while the first member of the group, say 'Albert', sits at the top of the next column. Is there any remedy?

An example:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage ...

Struggling with exactly the same problem. However, the example by Nicola Talbot gives me a single line of output, with just "sample, sample2." Is this supposed to be a working example?

Works like a charm! I think it is a good suggestion for the authors of xindy to pick a default; also, I think it is a little awkward to hide a language variant in a code page?

Thanks for sorting me out,
Izak

Texmaker executes xindy as:

xindy -I xindy -L dutch -M test -C utf8 -t test.glg -o test.gls test.glo

This gives the following error message:

Cannot locate xindy module for language dutch in codepage utf8

When I manually enter:

xindy -I xindy -M test -t test.glg -o test.gls test.glo

All ...