On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:02:13 +0100 Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: > * [Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:47:58AM +0100] Francesco Poli: > >Moving the "< /dev/tty" out of the -c argument makes it possible to > >start the browser, but, at least when using a text-based web browser, > >such as w3m, the user is prevented from interacting with the browser > >itself: as soon as the user presses any key on the keyboard, w3m exits > >and the user is returned to the apt-listbugs prompt. > >Worse, it seems that the pressed keys are sent to the apt-listbugs > >prompt, without being visible on the terminal: this means that entering > >one of the possible commands will fail and print the help... > > I'm not sure why I don't experience the same disruptive behaviour, even > using w3m myself.
This is awkward... :-| > This could be due to some differences in invoking > aptitude (I just use to run the curses ui of aptitude within sudo) or in > the environment (/etc/sudoers?), but can't think of a reasonable > explanation. Well, I was running apt-listbugs directly (without aptitude) inside a sid chroot, but I entered that chroot through sudo and I actually had the SUDO_* environment variables set... I don't think that these differences should produce a dramatically different outcome; after all, I was able to reproduce the issue you reported, with my setup! > Anyway ... > > >At this point, I hope that a radical solution may be found to fix both > >this bug (#662865) and the other one (#662983). > > ... I agree that a more generic and possibly radical fix has to be > found. Yeah, I really hope that a good solution may be found. Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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