Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 12:16:53 (+1000), David wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 21:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > There are many ways to work around it. My preferred way is to clear > > the screen with Ctrl-L (ESC Ctrl-L for me, because I use bash in vi > > mode). That will redraw the shell promp

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-20 Thread David
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 21:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 09:14:54PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 21:45:34 (+1000), David wrote: > > > And regarding "just hit the enter key ... and all is fine", this > > > behaviour does not just occur at a login prompt.

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 09:14:54PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 21:45:34 (+1000), David wrote: > > And regarding "just hit the enter key ... and all is fine", this > > behaviour does not just occur at a login prompt. If you login quickly > > as root to a minimal install as I o

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 21:45:34 (+1000), David wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 05:18, Felix Miata wrote: > > Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400): > > > I only mention it because once in a while, someone sees something like > > > it and freaks out, thinking the computer is locked u

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-12 Thread David
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 05:18, Felix Miata wrote: > Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400): > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > >> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted > >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Sep 2020 at 15:18:10 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400): > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > >> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted > >> https://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400): > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: >> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/03/msg01030.html >> (which dealt mainly with a more serio