selftest prompts for ssh password ??

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "Maritza" == Maritza Mendez <martitzam at gmail.com> writes:

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    >> Do you have bzr-gtk installed ? What version ? Can you try
    >> without that plugin ? I suspect the seahorse integration acting
    >> differently on your system than mine. Wild guess, but as since I
    >> can't reproduce it...
    >> 

    Maritza> Yes, I have bzr-gtk installed.  Latest from lp:bzr-gtk.
    Maritza> But the stall occurs even if I selftest with --no-plugins.
    Maritza> So I don't think bzr-gtk is part of the problem.

Try *uninstalling* bzr-gtk, I'm not sure --no-plugins is enough here.

    >> Another thing you can try: Ctrl-\ should drop you under the
    >> python debugger, from there issuing 'bt' will show you a
    >> backtrace that may help us understand what happens.
    >> 

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    Maritza> Running strace on something as small as 'selftest
    Maritza> test_http' produces several megabytes of data, which
    Maritza> always ends with

    Maritza> read(7,

I'll be interested by a compressed copy (but don't spam the
mailing list !)

    Maritza> where the 7 may be some other number.  It looks like
    Maritza> even strace is waiting.  This is reproducible.

Oh, it certainly waiting to stdin an you can try to hit return.

    Maritza> Is selftest really prompting me to enter a password?

If you see a prompt, there are good chances, yes.

    Maritza> And if so, why have I seen it only once in numerous
    Maritza> selftest runs or test_http?

If I know, I will already be working on a fix :-D

   Vincent