Package: console-tools
Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1
Severity: important
Hi!
I'm having issues with non-interactively upgrading console-tools to
lenny. I've pinned it down to that it might be somehwat related to
#563591 - only that this doesn't fail on me but:
#v+
if [ ! $CONSOLE_TYPE = "serial" ] ; then
readlink /proc/self/fd/0 | grep -q -e /dev/vc -e '/dev/tty[^p]'
-e /dev/console
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
VT="yes"
reset_vga_palette
fi
fi
[ $VT = "no" ] && return 0
#v-
This though isn't an interactive session, running unattained upgrades
in
a vmware. The script sees /dev/console as fd 0 and thus thinks it's on
virtual console.
So far, so bad. Later in that setup function the following is called:
#v+
# Go to UTF-8 mode as necessary
#
ENV_FILE=''
[ -r /etc/environment ] && ENV_FILE="/etc/environment"
[ -r /etc/default/locale ] && ENV_FILE="/etc/default/locale"
[ "$ENV_FILE" ] && CHARMAP=$(set -a && . "$ENV_FILE" && locale
charmap)
if test "$CHARMAP" = "UTF-8"
then
unicode_start 2> /dev/null || true
else
unicode_stop 2> /dev/null|| true
fi
#v-
Now unicode_stop is called in our case but it doesn't matter - both do
Call /usr/bin/vt-is-UTF8 --quiet. This unfortunately happily hangs while
waiting to read anything from /dev/ttyS0 ("read (3, <unfinished ...>)"),
right now for about two hours. The only posibility to work around is to
open the virtual console through vmware (I'm on the system via ssh
currently to analyse the issue) and press enter.
Given that these upgrades have to work non-interactively this is
extremly inconvenient. Any hint on what can and should be done to work
around the issue are highly appreciated!
Thanks!
Gerfried Fuchs
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