Bug 246567 - ls colour display corrupt for symbolic links
Summary: ls colour display corrupt for symbolic links
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: coreutils
Version: 7
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-03 05:03 UTC by Karl Czajkowski
Modified: 2007-12-06 22:53 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 6.9-6.fc7
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Last Closed: 2007-12-06 22:53:18 UTC
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Description Karl Czajkowski 2007-07-03 05:03:48 UTC
Description of problem:

Symbolic links are not listed properly when colouring is enabled for directory
listings containing symbolic link children.

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

coreutils-6.9-3.fc7

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a symbolic link such as /home/user -> ../../etc/hosts
2. cd /home/user
3. /bin/ls --color=always | grep hosts
  
Actual results:

host::karlcz[~] /bin/ls --color=always | grep hosts
argetmhosts


Expected results:

host::karlcz[~] /bin/ls --color=always | grep hosts
hosts

Additional info:

The corruption does not appear in long listings, nor when the file is listed
explicitly, nor when coloring is disabled:

host::karlcz[~] /bin/ls --color=always hosts
hosts

host::karlcz[~] /bin/ls --color=always -l | grep hosts
lrwxrwxrwx  1 karlcz karlcz       15 2007-07-03 11:48 hosts -> ../../etc/hosts

host::karlcz[~] /bin/ls --color=never | grep hosts
hosts

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2007-12-05 12:02:45 UTC
Sorry for delay, but got maintaining of coreutils in October and there were
other issues to be solved, could not reproduce with coreutils-6.9-5.fc7 and
xterm - what is your TERM setting? 

Comment 2 Karl Czajkowski 2007-12-05 13:08:24 UTC
I am using TERM=xterm and the regular xterm program.  It happens with LANG=C and
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and I did not try any other LANG settings...

I just verified that this still occurs for me with coreutils-6.9.5.fc7 on an
up-to-date Fedora 7 i686 install. It does not occur on an equivalent Fedora 8
machine I have with coreutils-6.9-11.fc8...

Here are a few other environment values from the system where it fails, in case
this is helpful...

TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=37:ln=target:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=
40;33;01:or=33;101:ex=31:*.tar=35:*.gz=93:*.tar.gz=35:*.tgz=35:*.arj=35:*.taz=35
:*.lzh=35:*.zip=35:*.z=93:*.Z=93:*.bz2=93:*.deb=35:*.rpm=35:*.jpg=32:*.png=32:*.
gif=32:*.bmp=32:*.ppm=32:*.tga=32:*.xbm=32:*.xpm=32:*.tif=32:*.png=32:*.mpg=32:*
.avi=32:*.fli=32:*.gl=32:*.dl=32:*.pnm=32:*.ppm=32:*.pgm=32:*.pbm=32:*.pdf=33:*.
ps=33:*.txt=36:*.html=36:*.htm=36:*.doc=33:*.ppt=33:*.h=33:*.o=91:*.c=33:*.cc=33
:*.C=33:*.c++=33:*.cxx=33:
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1


Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2007-12-05 14:00:35 UTC
Ok, I will backport coreutils bugfixes from F8 to F7(there is one relevant for
ls and displaying symlinks - but it worked for me even with current version on
my machine - strange) and we will see. Built as coreutils-6.9.6.fc7, will get
closed automatically once it will get pushed to F7 stable, feel free to reopen
it if the bug will be still present after update.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2007-12-06 22:53:17 UTC
coreutils-6.9-6.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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