reassign 289954 emacs21
retitle 289954  emacs terminal causes package installs using ucf/debconf to hang
thanks

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:24:59 -0800, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: 

> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 12:20 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
>> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 02:06 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> >         Can you see what happens if you run the same command
>> >         under
>> >  bash, in an xterm, for example?
>> > 
>> >    manoj
>> It works fine.  There is another difference: in the xterm, the
>> default answer of 2 is output after the question.  In emacs,
>> nothing appears after the question mark.

> Sorry, I left out that I could reproduce the error running inside an
> emacs shell.  I did this from my main X session, in which I sux'd to
> root and then launched emacs.

        Well, since this only happens when it is running under emacs,
 this is not something ucf can fix -- it is the terminal emulation
 that needs be looked at.

>> 
>> The way I tested this was by fiddling with sensors.conf.eg and then
>> executing the command (on one line) ucf --debconf-ok --three-way
>> /usr/share/lm-sensors/sensors.conf.eg /etc/sensors.conf
>> 
>> All of this as root.
>> 
>> However, in contrast to my initial report
>> 1) I used sux to become root, rather than logging in as root
>> 2) I used my main terminal (vt7), running X.
>> 
>> So the problem seems to be triggered by running a shell under
>> emacs.  I'm using the default shell, bash.
>> 

> I wonder if something has changed to trigger this problem, as I do
> installs under emacs shells from time to time, and haven't run into
> this problem before before (I think).

        Apart from ucf now using debconf for interaction, which is not
 really recent, I can't think of anything.

        manoj
-- 
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from
a simple system that worked." -- John Gall, _Systemantics_
Manoj Srivastava   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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