Bug 1301174

Summary: unable to delete input in appliance_console
Product: Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Reporter: Colin Arnott <carnott>
Component: ApplianceAssignee: Nick Carboni <ncarboni>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: luke couzens <lcouzens>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.5.0CC: abellott, benglish, jhardy, jrafanie, nachandr, ncarboni, obarenbo
Target Milestone: GA   
Target Release: cfme-future   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2016-11-29 16:31:35 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Colin Arnott 2016-01-22 19:08:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
In appliance_console after text is entered it cannot be deleted and the backspace key generates ^H in the text input.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.5.0.13

How reproducible:
very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run appliance_console
2. press enter and get to a text entry field
3. enter text
4. use backspace

Actual results:
^H character in inserted into text field

Expected results:
last character is deleted

Additional info:
Comment 2 Nick Carboni 2016-01-25 19:45:37 UTC 
I can't reproduce this in an ssh session (terminal + bash), through the vsphere thick client, or using VMM on fedora.  With what option in the appliance console are you seeing this behavior and how are you accessing the console?  I suspect this is an issue with that particular system rather than the console itself.
Comment 3 Colin Arnott 2016-02-09 21:13:37 UTC 
Sorry for the delay; I have reproduced the error and can confirm it is an issue with xterm specifically. Most Linux terminals emulate a VT200 terminal, but xterm targets VT100.

Let me know if this helps, or if you would like additional information.

Sources
0] http://ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html#prob
Comment 5 Nick Carboni 2016-11-29 16:31:35 UTC 
Closing this as it is an issue with a specific terminal rather than a bug in the console.