selftest prompts for ssh password ??

[Maritza Mendez]

I have just taken the 1.16 PPA packages for jaunty and started selftest,
with stdout redirected to a file.

As usual for me, the first stall occurs at

test_http.TestActivity.test_get(urllib,https,HTTP/1.0)


That much is reproducible.

What is *not* reproducible is that on stderr (still attached to the console)
I got this:

SSH: bzr jim at bar.org password: SSH: bzr jim at bar.org password:

Several attempts to reproduce this prompt under various circumstances
(stdout redirected or not, stderr redirected or not) have all failed.

Digging into test_config.py suggests that bzr is waiting for an interactive
response like 'jimpass'

But as I say I have not been able to repeat this...

I do notice some advisements that pycurl cannot prompt, but as you can see
this error *appears* to be related to urllib -- not pycurl.

I say "appears" because I am assuming (without proof) that stdout and stdin
are in sync, and there's really no good reason to believe that.  So all I
can really say is "At a time when selftest has hung -- as confirmed by
strace -- the last messages flushed to stdout and stderr are such-and-such."

Is selftest really prompting me to enter a password?  And if so, why have I
seen it only once in numerous selftest runs or test_http?

Any ideas?

-M
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