Re: the test suite fails

[Jim Meyering]

Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=FILE bs=1M count=1 2>/dev/null
>> > # parted -s FILE mklabel msdos >out 2>&1
>> > # xxd out
>> > 0000000: 1b5b 3f31 3033 3468                      .[?1034h
>>
>> That's probably coming from one of your startup dot files
>
> I don't think so:
>
> # bash -c "true" | od -xa
> 0000000
>
> # bash -c "parted /dev/hda quit" | od -xa
> 0000000 5b1b 313f 3330 6834
>         esc   [   ?   1   0   3   4   h
> 0000010
>
> It seems to be coming from parted.
>
> # type -a parted
> parted is /usr/sbin/parted
>
> # file $(type -p parted)
> /usr/sbin/parted: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
> stripped
>
> # ldd $(type -p parted)
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fba000)
>         libparted-1.8.so.7 => /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.7 (0xb7f45000)
>         libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb7f3f000)
>         libreadline.so.5 => /lib/libreadline.so.5 (0xb7f04000)

Then perhaps it's  readline?
Do you still get it if you invoke parted like this?

    # env TERM=dumb parted /dev/hda quit | od -a

or this:

    # env -u TERM parted /dev/hda quit | od -a