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clusterssh messes up copy-paste, inserts wrong characters

Bug #429607 reported by Imre Gergely
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: clusterssh

I'm using clusterssh (3.24-1) on Jaunty to give commands to a bunch of other linux servers. I noticed that when copy-pasting certain characters, some of the characters don't get through correctly, like this:

`1234567890-=~!@#$%^&*()_+
becomes
`123456789`/=~$@#$%^&*()?+

Notice how the minus sign ( - ) becomes a slash ( / ), the zero (0) becomes backtick ( ` ) and so on.

This happens only when I paste it in the CSSH window, when I paste it directly in one of the open xterm windows, it appears OK. It doesn't seem to matter what distribution I log into (Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu).

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Imre Gergely (cemc)
description: updated
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El Goretto (el-goretto) wrote :

Same problem here.
It's independant of the SSH server system (I was willing to connect to 3com hardware). Middle-button paste is ok directly in window, but not through cssh input field.
For example, "return" becomes "ê€þûê¬".

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SteffenOschatz (steffen-oschatz) wrote :

At least solved for me in latest release 3.27 on SourceForge.
Fixed in source probably since 2009-04-16.
Please perform upgrade, because currently version is complete useless if most of the users can not paste in it.
(For example: typing 50 character random ids for lookup purpose isn't that funny)

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Imre Gergely (cemc) wrote :

It's worth noting that in Karmic it works ok, with clusterssh 3.26, I get no funny copy-paste stuff.

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Imre Gergely (cemc) wrote :

I took the liberty of building the latest package from Karmic for Jaunty/Intrepid/... and will test it later today. If anybody wants to take a look, you can get it from my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~cemc/+archive/ppa)

I made no changes to the Karmic package, it's just a rebuild. Please update this bugreport if you find anything.

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Imre Gergely (cemc) wrote :

You can read about installing packages from PPAs here: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/InstallingSoftware.

summary: - cssh messes up copy-paste, inserts wrong characters
+ clusterssh messes up copy-paste, inserts wrong characters
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Imre Gergely (cemc) wrote :

Strike that, it seems that this problem possibly has to do something with Gnome.

I tried the new clusterssh 3.26 on Jaunty (on Karmic it was working so I did a rebuild for Jaunty) but I got the same paste error. Then just for fun I tried it with WindowMaker and there it IS working just fine.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in clusterssh (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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rac (justwtf) wrote :

Same problem here using
clusterssh Version: 4.02_03 on Trusty (Ubuntu 14.04)

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Nicolai Mollerup (nicolai-mollerup) wrote :

Using clusterssh: Installed: 4.03.06-2 on Wily (ubuntu 15.10).

Some chars are changed, some removed.

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Don (doci) wrote :

Using clusterssh: Installed: 4.07 on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS.
Copy: 1234567890-=~!@#$%^&*()_+
Paste-Output: 1234567890-=~!%()_+
Some chars are changed, some removed.

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Mario Emmenlauer (emmenlau) wrote :

Still the same for default clusterssh installation 4.13 on Ubuntu 18.04. Copy-pasting lines with backslash (\) or pipe (|) inserts them as backtick (`) for me. This breaks a really useful tool, any help greatly appreciated.

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