Bug 870622

Summary: The TERM environment variable is not passed to the shell
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thorsten Vaupel <vaupelt>
Component: systemdAssignee: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: johannbg, kzak, lnykryn, metherid, mschmidt, msekleta, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin
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Description Thorsten Vaupel 2012-10-27 11:34:58 UTC
Created attachment 634160 [details]
slightly modified serial-getty@.service

Description of problem:
The unit file serial-getty@.service contains the line Environment=TERM=vt102 with the intention to pass it to the environment of the new shell but it looks as if it is ignored by agetty.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
44-20.fc17

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. instantiate a getty for a serial line
2. log in
3. echo $TERM
  
Actual results:
The value "linux" is assigned to TERM

Expected results:
The value "vt102" should be assigned to TERM

Additional info:
The attached unit file which basically appends vt102 to ExecStart works for me.

Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2012-10-29 19:05:42 UTC
agetty always overrides the TERM variable with its own logic, unless the third argument is specified. That explains why Environment has no effect.

Furthermore, I believe there's a bug in agetty. It attempts to detect the distinction between the vc and a serial line and set TERM accordingly, but it does not work as expected. I will send Karel a fix.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-12-05 17:19:53 UTC
systemd-195-10.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-195-10.fc18

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-12-05 23:15:41 UTC
Package systemd-195-10.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-195-10.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-19811/systemd-195-10.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-12-08 04:35:43 UTC
systemd-195-10.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.