On 2012-04-23 14:24:07 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > retitle 670144 fancy output sometimes broken by misbehaving initscripts
I don't think that they are misbehaving. See below. > Le 23.04.2012 13:56, Michael Biebl a écrit : > > the new "fancy" output is nice. I've noticed a few services though, > > where it is broken, e.g. the udev or fsck init script. The output looks > > like this: > > [....] Running foo > > (doing something) > > done.] [...] > In most cases I encountered, this is due to init scripts not using the > functions from /lib/lsb/init-functions (as documented in > /usr/share/doc/lsb-base/README.Debian) properly. Even scripts using these functions are affected. > For example, no screen output is supposed to happen between the > log_daemon_msg and log_end_msg calls. I think your wrong, at least nowadays. This can happen in practice because some scripts are run in parallel. For instance: Sun Jan 5 23:09:44 2014: [....] Starting domain name service...: bind9[....] Starting dictionary server: dictd^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Before bind9 got ready, dictd was started, hence the problem. > Same for log_action_begin_msg and log_action_end_msg. > > Now, the conceptual thing that could help would be the ability to set > and unset terminal left margins, to avoid having the new lines start at > column 0. This would not be sufficient. The log_daemon_msg function must also make sure that its output is at the start of a new line. This is possible (zsh does this by default for prompt output), though this is a bit of a hack and this would somewhat break the current bootlogd version. However, for the log_end_msg call, I don't have a solution other than duplicating the line to make sure that the message appears in a correct context. Well, a new kind of console that can manage start/end identifiers would solve the problem (hoping a race condition cannot occur), but that's on the kernel side, isn't it? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org