terminal settings messed up after do-release-upgrade run less for you
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
14.04 -> 14.10 went flawlessly, on my nearly-
The only problem I noticed was when prompted to yN or d for details. After hitting d, return, then exitting from less (without doing anything weird like ^z), the prompt for what to do next wasn't printed. I think somehow the process printing it started line buffering instead of doing unbuffered i/o, because when I did press y, I saw multiple prompts all on the same line. (I think. They linewrapped, and scrolled away quickly. I should have hit ^space [ to enter screen's copy/paste mode, where scrolling is prevented (tty output blocks once the buffer fills up. I love that do-release-upgrade automatically run itself in a screen session.)
I reproduced it on my desktop (still running 14.04 for now), too. I only had to go as far as having 'do-release-upgrade -d' comment-out all my PPAs in sources.list (which it puts back when you say N to cancel), and download some lists, before the first yN/ [d]etails prompt.
tty echo is still enabled. The less status-line prompt disappears, leaving the last line of the screen empty until you type anything.
The laptop (amd64) ran sudo do-release-upgrade -d from a gnome-terminal tab, running under a stock Ubuntu Gnome desktop.
The desktop (amd64) ran sudo do-release-upgrade -d from a screen session in a gnome-terminal tab, in a fluxbox session.
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 on the laptop, en_CA.utf8 on the desktop.
copy-pasted from my gnome-terminal after reproducing the bug and pressing return a few times before N<return>:
...
libunwind-dev libva-drm1 libvisio-0.1-1 libvlccore8 libvncclient0
libwireshark5 libwiretap4 libwpd-0.10-10 libwpg-0.3-3 libwps-0.3-3
libwsutil4 libx32asan1 libx32cilkrts5 libx32gcc-4.9-dev
libx32stdc+
N
Continue [yN] Details [d]Continue [yN] Details [d]Continue [yN] Details [d]Continue [yN] Details [d]Continue [yN] Details [d]Continue [yN] Details [d]Continue [yN] Details [d]
Restoring original system state
Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
=== Command terminated with exit status 1 (Wed Feb 4 03:28:41 2015) ===
| Peter Cordes (peter-cordes) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Formatting ate the multiple blank lines. There is a blank line for every time I pressed return, before N.
pasted to a file, too, in case anyone didn't fully understand the description.