Package: base Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
The getty login screens on wheezy allow the user to move the cursor at the beginning of the "login:" prompt line, thus overwriting the "login:" string. It is also possible to move the cursor down and while at the bottom pressing the "Enter" key will allow the screen to scroll down further. After that the only way to bring the prompt back is to press Ctrl+C. The normal behaviour should be the tty showing a ^[[D each time the user press an arrow key. This correct behaviour happens only after a failed login, but after some minutes the tty get back to the "weird-mode". It is not possible to login if the cursor has been moved down the screen. (but you can login if the cursor has been moved at the beginning of the "login:" line). I think this problem only affects wheezy, because on irc some other users confirmed that squeeze has not this kind of problem. I think the problem has something to do with the getty program (instead of the login program) because "ps auxf" shows that while 'weird-mode' is on the only program on the tty is getty. It happens on all the six ttys and sometime i find some (never used) tty like tty4 with part of the "login:" string deleted and the cursor is some characters before the prompt. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash bye Carlo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
