Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55382
reset does not reset to proper values (console login)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:53 EDT
Description of Problem: When using 'reset' to reset the console to sane settings, the command does not reset the console as per expectations, disabling ^D, ^C, and setting ^H to be Interrupt. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.2-12 How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run setup (it uses curses) and run the X config especially. 2. quit out of setup 3. run 'reset' on the command line Actual Results: Terminal characteristics are imprefectly reset - ^C, ^D, ^H, for example, all misbehave Expected Results: Terminal settings identical to login state. Additional Information: fresh install RH72. No updates yet. Will replicate on Upd RH72 if required, but no ncurses update was seen.
The default values are: ^C = Interrupt (Enabled) ^D = Hangup (== logout in normal shells) (enabled) ^H = Backspace And reset resets to just those.
in THEORY, that should be the case. Do me a favour: take 10 freakin' seconds, read the report, duplicate the problem and understand that SUCH ISN'T HAPPENING. Please give me some indication that reporting bugs is NOT a waste of my time.
Sorry, I misunderstood your bug report - I read "the command does not reset the console as per expectations, disabling ^D, ^C, and setting ^H to be Interrupt" as "The command does not reset the console as per expectations, with the expectations being that ^D and ^C are disabled, and ^H is set to be Interrupt" (non-ambiguous bug reports are even less of a waste of time ;)) ) I've tried to reproduce this about 20 times by now, and still haven't seen the behavior you're describing. What is $TERM set to?
Verified the following all worked after attempting bug reporter's case: ^C = Interrupt (Enabled) ^D = Hangup (== logout in normal shells) (enabled) ^H = Backspace I verified this both with and without X. Bishop, is there any other info you can send me about how you have things set up?
certainly (bero - $TERM = linux ) It's a Compaq ProLiant 1600, dirt-common machine. 4.3Gb SCSI on the ncr-ish hot-swap bay, 256M in the box, single 400MHz processor. RH72 is set up as a minimal server install, the only changes being a partition layout change: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 17 17392 83 Linux /dev/sda2 18 4094 4174848 5 Extended /dev/sda5 18 146 132080 82 Linux swap /dev/sda6 147 4094 4042736 83 Linux [root@localhost linux]# mount /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) Packages added since ISL: - tun - vtun - lzo The problem occured before installation of those pkgs, tho. What more do you wish to know? Modules.conf? rpm-qa? anything, let me know. The only thing I can't do is allow a login to that machine - the machine's behind three corp firewalls (no SYNs to the devel location) and is deadlinked because my IS can't get the route statement right. SO, no ssh/etc, but almost anything else. I HAVE some different hardware available to me, because, well, where I work, but I'd have to horsetrade for something. If you want me to test on different HW, I can do this too. Give me a standard-ish HW profile and I may be abel to match it. Thanks for accepting my flame, more so for still looking at the issue. I hate NOTABUGs that I can see plain as day. 8-\