Bug#221290: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#221290: Bug #221290 still here: screen garbled after entering high-ascii characters at login prompt

[Alexander Gattin]

tags 221290 confirmed
thanks

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:13:25PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Well, I don't have an all caps afterwards.

Surely, that's completely another thing, for
historical reasons BTW.

> I just checked (on Sarge)

the same, on linux console, vesafb, UA/UTF-8 keymap

> When I run stty -a in a "clean" shell vs. in a "broken" shell (in the
> sequence above, before running reset) I get the following differences:
> claen:                    broken:
> ======                    =======
> -parenb -parodd cs8       parenb -parodd cs7
> -inpck -istrip            inpck istrip

the same, but sometimes only cs8 vs. cs7 difference is
noticed... :-/

> If you need more/other info, please tell me which.

Thanks for your patience, anyway. Also, I strongly
suspect that the bug is in _getty_ package, because
IIRC "login:" prompt is printed/processed by getty, and
"passwd:" one is provided by login later.

And I do not recall any messing with stty there...

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