Bug 1144201

Summary: guestfish can not restore terminal's output colour when exit guestfish, if the terminal's background colour is black then it will make a inconvenient
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Lingfei Kong <lkong>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 7.1CC: leiwang, mbooth, ptoscano, wshi
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Fixed In Version: libguestfs-1.27.50-1.1.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-03-05 13:45:23 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Lingfei Kong 2014-09-19 01:29:35 UTC
Description of problem:
guestfish can not restore terminal's output colour when exit guestfish, if the terminal's background colour is black then it will make a inconvenient(see attatchment: guestfish_2.png).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-1.27.48-1.1.el7


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
# useradd test
# su - test
# guestfish
><fs>
><fs> exit
[test@rhel7libguestfs ~]$ (these characters are black on a black background colour)


Actual results:
See attachment: guestfish_2.png


Expected results:
guestfish should restore terminal's output colour when exit guestfish


Additional info:

Comment 1 Lingfei Kong 2014-09-19 01:30:38 UTC
Created attachment 939072 [details]
guestfish_2.png

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-09-19 12:12:49 UTC
An easy way to reproduce this:

(1) Run:  xterm -bg black -fg white

(2) In the xterm window which opens, run guestfish

(3) Type 'exit' at the guestfish prompt

(4) We return to the command prompt, but with black-on-black prompt
and text.

Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-09-19 12:53:30 UTC
*** Bug 1144198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Lingfei Kong 2014-09-24 05:06:05 UTC
Verify with libguestfs-1.27.53-1.1.el7
Steps to verify:
1. Run:  xterm -bg black -fg white
2. Run guestfish
3. ><fs> exit
4. Return to the command prompt with white-on-black prompt

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 13:45:23 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0303.html