Bug 100416 – Login try with agetty leads to capitals only

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Patrick Beckmann 2005-07-26 15:58:01 UTC]

When I try a text console login via agetty and type a username consisting of
capital characters, the terminal will only print capitals after that. A "reset"
after a successful login turns back the terminal to normal behaviour.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl+F1
2. Try to log in with "A", for example
3.

Actual Results:  
All characters appear in upper case.

Expected Results:  
Characters should be in the correct case.

I use vesa frame buffer and "lat9w-16" as console font. My `emerge info` follows:

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.12 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-falign-loops=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-functions=5 -msse -mmmx -m3dnow
-mfpmath=sse,387 -ffast-math"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-falign-loops=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-functions=5 -msse -mmmx -m3dnow
-mfpmath=sse,387 -ffast-math"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/
ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/
ftp://mirror.scarlet-internet.nl/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aalib acl acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts
bluetooth caps cdr crypt cups curl directfb dts dv dvd dvdread emacs emboss
encode esd ethereal fam fame flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif gpm gtk
gtk2 gtkhtml guile hardened hbci i8x0 icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb irmc
jabber java jpeg junit libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2
mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nvidia objc offensive ogg
oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib pic png quicktime readline real samba scanner sdl
slang speex spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vorbis xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv
xvid zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-07-26 16:52:58 UTC]

that's a feature

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30500 ***