[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#630108: Stopped propagating errors from child.

[Michael Schutte]

Hi Trent,

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> The version of openvt(1) I had yesterday, would return an error if its
> child did, i.e. "openvt -sw -- false", failed.  This version doesn't.
> I want the old behaviour back, because it's useful for my scripts.
> 
> I think my old version was
> 
>     [UPGRADE] kbd 1.15.2-3 -> 1.15.3-3
> 
> but I upgraded a lot of stuff yesterday. :-(

Thanks for your report, that’s definitely a regression in kbd.  I’ll
reintroduce the previous behavior in the next upload.

> PS: I'm using kbd instead of console-setup because the former can do a
> smaller Terminus font than the latter.  If you can tell me how to do
> that in console-setup, I'm happy to switch to it.
> 
>     $ cat ~/.console-setup
>     # -*- sh -*-
>     #. /etc/default/console-setup || :
>     ## FIXME: only list tty's owned by my user.
>     # ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
>     # CHARMAP="UTF-8"
>     # CODESET="Uni2"
>     FONTFACE="Terminus"
>     FONTSIZE="12x6"
>     # XKBMODEL="pc105"
>     # XKBLAYOUT="us"
>     # XKBVARIANT=""
>     XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"

I don’t see why this wouldn’t work (and indeed, it works for me) –
perhaps the console-setup maintainers can help you with that.

Cheers,
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