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console-tools package

/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh Searches /etc/environment with wrong regexp.

Bug #18575 reported by Ralph Corderoy
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
console-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh contains

    for var in LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE ; do
        value=$(egrep "^[^#]*${var}=" /etc/environment | tail -n1 | cut -d= -f2)
       eval $var=$value
    done

egrep's pattern will match FOOLANG, OLDLANG, etc., same goes for the
other values of $var causing, e.g. LANG to be assigned FOOLANG's value.

See also bug #18448. These two bugs account for both misreadings of
/etc/environment in my installation but it's possible the code has been
copied to other /etc/init.d/* scripts that I don't have; perhaps
there's a big installation somewhere that someone can grep?

Revision history for this message
Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus) wrote :

Setting to Confirmed since the script is still the same in Dapper, Ubuntu 6.06.

Changed in console-tools:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This was apparently fixed by this Debian upload, included in Feisty:

console-tools (1:0.2.3dbs-65) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove dependency on sysvinit, to allow for upstart. Closes: #386134.
  * Remove reference to <asm/kbio.h> which has been removed from the
    sparc kernel. Closes: #386038.
  * Fix comment typo in unicode_start.
  * Fix defkeymap location in loadkeys map page. Closes: #382595.
  * Include lct-9.html in the docs. Closes: #384118.
  * Patch from Karol Lewandowski for console-screen.sh to remove
    unnecessary process spawns. Closes: #382115.
  * Add LSB logging support to console-screen.sh, patch by
    David Hardeman. Closes: #384785.
  * console-screen.sh: Don't set fonts on tty0. Closes: #366272.

 -- Alastair McKinstry <email address hidden> Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:46:25 +0100

Changed in console-tools:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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