how to reproduce: just run `genkernel --help`. shell= /bin/bash, version "2.05b-r8" console=xterm, `xterm -v` gives "XFree86 4.2.99.903(174)", although reproducable in a raw tty also (I haven't tried others). on the following line in the strace output write(1, "\33[33;01m* usage: genkernel --opt"..., 37* usage: genkernel --options ) = 37 the colour changes to yellow from and including the * after 37 until font colour changed by another application. strace output:- stat64("/etc/kernels/settings", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=664, ...}) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 stat64("/etc/kernels/settings", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=664, ...}) = 0 open("/etc/kernels/settings", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=664, ...}) = 0 read(3, "STORAGE_MODULES=\"sd_mod sg sr_mo"..., 664) = 664 close(3) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 pipe([3, 4]) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0 _llseek(255, -7647, [1148], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fork() = 2090 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x8079f10, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4004ef28}, {0x8079f10, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4004ef28}, 8) = 0 close(4) = 0 read(3, "-j2\n", 128) = 4 read(3, 0xbffff600, 128) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- waitpid(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], WNOHANG) = 2090 waitpid(-1, 0xbffff2a4, WNOHANG) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) read(3, "", 128) = 0 close(3) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8079e30, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4004ef28}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8079e30, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4004ef28}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 read(255, "MENUCONFIG=\"no\"\nBOOTSPLASH=\"no\"\n"..., 8192) = 8192 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40 014000 write(1, "\33[33;01m* usage: genkernel --opt"..., 37* usage: genkernel --options ) = 37 write(1, "\33[33;01m*\n", 10* ) = 10 write(1, "\33[33;01m* --config = "..., 55* --config = Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run `genkernel --help` 2. 3. Actual Results: all terminal text went yellow Expected Results: help message, but not all in yellow nor remaining yellow Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r8, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts aalib nas svga tcltk java sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt motif opengl mozilla ldap cdr X gtk gnome -alsa"
so nice you don't even mention what genkernel version. So helpful. if you're going to make a freaking bug report, provide the right info! plus i've never seen it happen here with any version.
It was the current ebuild of the time. I apologise.... As Genkernel 2.1 is currently unavailable (no genkernel-2.1.tar.bz2) and Genkernel 2.0 doesn't have a matching checksum (and doesn't work when overriden) I can unfortunately no longer reproduce the issue. I see no reason for the issue to still occur in later versions as the help message has been changed to no longer contains a yellow wildcard preceding paragraphs.
