Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-30 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 509866 apt-get 0.7.19+b1 severity 509866 normal thanks On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: > You could append ',clone,fork,vfork,execve' to 'trace=ioctl'. Thanks. > > On Monday 29 December 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: > My initial gut feeling was that this could be one of ke

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 16:03:34 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > If the same system call is causing this change then: > > strace -f -v -e trace=ioctl > OK, I can somewhat reproduce this although the behavior appears quite > random. I don't get caps co

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Frans, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:42:46 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > 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. Right, I don't see

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > 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. Indeed: stty LCASE (can be reverted with stty -LCASE) > Any suggestions how we could debug this? If t

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
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 Instal

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 27 December 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Not really an idea, but I see a pattern. The switch to CAPS always > > seems to happen after a call to set the title in debconf: > > > > So maybe debconf is the culprit? > > I very much doubt it's relate

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 December 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > Not really an idea, but I see a pattern. The switch to CAPS always > seems to happen after a call to set the title in debconf: > > So maybe debconf is the culprit? I very much doubt it's related to that TITLE message as 1) that's been there sinc

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-27 10:35 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.14.23 > Severity: important > > I've thought about filing this as release critical as it is really weird > behavior and seems like a fairly recent regression from somewhere. > I had already seen this a few weeks ago while usi

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.23 Severity: important I've thought about filing this as release critical as it is really weird behavior and seems like a fairly recent regression from somewhere. I had already seen this a few weeks ago while using pbuilder and dismissed it as random weirdness, but I no