Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console
I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke
debotstrap we communicate with in through it's stdin and fd 3. We redirect
debootstrap's stdout and stderr to /dev/tty4. stdout and stderr have those
messages described below. My guess is that when installing over a serial
console tty4 goes to the console as well, possible?
If that is true then we need to find another place to direct debotstraps stderr
and stdout.
David
Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:41:25PM +0100 wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 2.4.3
>
> I am using a serial console, on hppa. When deboostrap is installing
> the debs, I get text scrolling up my screen like this:
>
> Unpacking ppp (from .../archives/ppp_2.4.1-1_hppa.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package sysklogd.
> Unpacking sysklogd (from .../sysklogd_1.4.1-2_hppa.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package tasksel.
> Unpacking tasksel (from .../tasksel_1.1-1_hppa.deb) ...
>
>
> Apart from looking a mess, this has the effect of scrolling any
> dialog boxes off the top of the screen.
>
> I havn't tried a woody install on a graphical console, so I
> don't know where the text goes in that case.
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:45:20AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:33:34PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > > A worse problem, IMHO, is that the warning box gets scrolled off the
> > > screen by all the "Unpacking ...", "Setting up...." messages that
> > > scroll up my screen staircase fashion. Maybe that is a feature of
> > > a serial console install, and output goes somewhere else on a
> > > graphical install.
> >
> > Could you file a bug against the boot-floppies about this. This
> > sounds pretty gross.
> >
> > Does anyone know what happens with the stdout/stderr messages
> > from other programs when installing via a serial console?
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
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