Bug 31316 – /sbin/rc uses raw colour code \e[34;01m not $BRACKET causing problems on serial consoles

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description David Taylor 2003-10-16 15:24:09 UTC]

/sbin/rc uses \e34;01m on line 74 (just before the http://www.gentoo.org/ url).
 It then uses $NORMAL to return to non colour text.

However, on a serial console /sbin/functions.sh sets RC_NOCOLOUR to yes,
resulting in $NORMAL (et all) being blank.  Since $BRACKET is defined to be the
same as the colour code used here when colour is on, and blank if it's off, it
should probably be used instead.

This will hopefully fix my console boot up being entirely blue..

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use a serial console which understands colour codes
2. boot

Actual Results:  
1. the bootup sequence is blue from the http://www.gentoo.org url to the end

Expected Results:  
Either:
A: An entirely non-coloured display
or
B: A normally highlighted display

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-10-26 10:03:00 UTC]

Hi, please try baselayout-1.8.6.11, as it is already fixed here.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-10-15 22:48:15 UTC]

this has been fixed long ago