Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> 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?

Right,  from exec_debootstrap()

        /* redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/tty4 */
        freopen("/dev/tty4", "w", stderr);
        dup2(2,1);

I suppose the freopen fails, so stdout/stderr will remain on the console.
Maybe we could write it to /target/tmp/debootstrap.log on a serial
console system?

Richard