Bug#828685: tasksel: <stdin> <stdout> characters when trying to install ssh server

[Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nicolas@braud-santoni.eu>]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hi,

What do you mean by “renders some strings like stdin, stdout and other that i
cannot identify them”? Could you provide the complete output from tasksel on the
terminal?

Also, please test with the released version of stretch or the current testing
whether this still occurs.


Best,

  nicoo

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:18:10PM +0300, Karagkiaouris Diamantis wrote:
> Package: tasksel
> Version: 3.35
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When i try to install ssh server metapackage from tasksel, it renders some
> strings like stdin, stdout and other that i cannot identify them. After the
> procedure is finished these strings disappear and the ssh server is properly
> installed.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
> ii  apt                     1.2.13
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.59
> ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-2
> ii  perl-base               5.22.2-1
> ii  tasksel-data            3.35
> 
> tasksel recommends no packages.
> 
> tasksel suggests no packages.
> 
> -- debconf information:
> * tasksel/desktop: xfce
>   tasksel/title:
>   tasksel/first: desktop, xfce-desktop, standard
>   tasksel/tasks: desktop, xfce-desktop, ssh-server, laptop
>