Bug 15186 – emerge appears to be generating undecodable printable control sequences

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Phil Richards 2003-02-05 16:46:59 UTC]

For reasons which are too painful to go into, I had to run konsole directly from
another window, from which I then ran emerge.  I noticed that the following was
being output:

undecodable token: \001b(hex)[32;06m

(This appears to be "darkgreen" in /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/output.py)

phil

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-02-05 22:12:38 UTC]

could you attach some sample outputs and/or screenshots ? 

[Comment 2 Phil Richards 2003-02-07 02:35:58 UTC]

[In a normal konsole window:]

pgr@derisoft business $ konsole

[window pops up]
[In new window:]

pgr@derisoft business $ emerge -s fileutils
Searching...
[ Results for search key : fileutils ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  sys-apps/fileutils
      Latest version available: 4.1.11
      Latest version installed: 4.1.11
      Size of downloaded files: 2,503 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/fileutils.html
      Description: Standard GNU file utilities (chmod, cp, dd, dir, ls, etc)

[There are 6 sections above in green, the "*", and the field name on each of the lines after.]

[In the original window:]
undecodable token: \001b(hex)[32;06m
undecodable token: \001b(hex)[32;06m
undecodable token: \001b(hex)[32;06m
undecodable token: \001b(hex)[32;06m
undecodable token: \001b(hex)[32;06m

Attachments for original and new window are (being) attached.

[Comment 3 Phil Richards 2003-02-07 02:36:56 UTC]

Created attachment 8002 [details]
Screen shot of window used to launch konsole, and the error messages

[Comment 4 Phil Richards 2003-02-07 02:37:47 UTC]

Created attachment 8003 [details]
konsole window that generates the errors, with the command used

[Comment 5 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2003-04-23 08:28:48 UTC]

All kde apps output their errors to stderror. Normally you don't see it, but in your case you do. The errors are generated because portage uses escape sequences that konsole doesn't understand. I'm assigning this bug to carpaski to see whether he can do something with it, else it is a WONTFIX.

[Comment 6 Phil Richards 2003-04-23 14:13:24 UTC]

To be honest, I'm not that fussed - I just raised the bug report
because something was generating codes that may have been causing
emerge to incorrectly highlight its output.

I'm happy for this to be closed as a WONTFIX - as long as the emerge
bods are happy that emerge output is fine in a konsole.

Let's face it, there are more important things to sort out than *this*.

phil

[Comment 7 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) 2003-12-06 04:09:25 UTC]

I wasn't able to reproduce this.

I'm resolving this as FIXED. Reopen if needed.