On Monday 29 December 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Yet, it does look like some terminal capability to force caps is
> switched on and AFAIK dpkg doesn't have any code related to terminal
> configuration.

That was why I was not immediately worried when it happened for pbuilder. 
But Debian Installer is a relatively clean and controlled environment, so 
the fact that it happens there too is IMO an indication that some fairly 
basic package is broken.

D-I itself certainly does not do anything strange re terminal 
configuration in the /target chroot and I'd be surprised if debconf would 
turn out to be responsible.

Also note that in D-I all output is redirected to syslog and not to a 
terminal, although I guess terminal settings could still influence it.

> Or is it possible that some special character could be sent to the
> terminal resulting in such a configuration change on the fly?

I have no idea. I'm not all that familiar with terminal stuff.
Google tells me that stty does have command line options to change the 
case of output.

Any suggestions how we could debug this?
I guess it must be some script or command that is run in some cases but 
not all. If we could find out what that is...



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