bug#30505: marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures

2018-02-19 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:35:05 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > > It was a bad idea to do the "\x1b%G" in the first place. > > Because it’s redundant with IUTF8? I meant because the Linux kernel does it already and it's better not to have random multi-byte racy writes

bug#30505: marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures

2018-02-19 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, >I hadn’t noticed this is now part of ‘%base-services’. It would be nice if it were enabled on ARM only. Thoughts? Why? It's not ARM-specific and there are people using headless x86 servers posting on the mailing list :) It's only enabled when you specify a serial port as console on

bug#30505: marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures

2018-02-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:01:31 +0100 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> The “\x1b;%G” sequences correspond to the “select UTF-8” console code >> (see console_codes(4)). We’re receiving this as if we were a console, >> but in

bug#30505: marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures

2018-02-18 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:01:31 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > The “\x1b;%G” sequences correspond to the “select UTF-8” console code > (see console_codes(4)). We’re receiving this as if we were a console, > but in fact all we want is to exchange raw bytes between the host

bug#30505: marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures

2018-02-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, On core-updates (or is it master now?), “make check-system TESTS=basic” fails with: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Test begin: test-name: "/run/current-system is a GC root" source-file: "/gnu/store/irm2375f5p7nzyqqllwjfaby3ywhi5wq-basic-builder"