[Bug 1722564] Re: apport question will not accept multi-character responses

[Brian Murray]

For reasons unknown to me apport-cli only reads one character.

 37     def raw_input_char(self, prompt):
 38         '''raw_input, but read only one character'''
 39 
 40         sys.stdout.write(prompt)
 41         sys.stdout.write(' ')
 42         sys.stdout.flush()
 43 
 44         file = sys.stdin.fileno()
 45         saved_attributes = termios.tcgetattr(file)
 46         attributes = termios.tcgetattr(file)
 47         attributes[3] = attributes[3] & ~(termios.ICANON)
 48         attributes[6][termios.VMIN] = 1
 49         attributes[6][termios.VTIME] = 0
 50         termios.tcsetattr(file, termios.TCSANOW, attributes)
 51 
 52         try:
 53             ch = str(sys.stdin.read(1))
 54         finally:
 55             termios.tcsetattr(file, termios.TCSANOW, saved_attributes)
 56 
 57         sys.stdout.write('\n')
 58         return ch


** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  apport question will not accept multi-character responses

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  the newly added cloud-init apport support shows a list of cloud
  providers and asks the user to select one.  There are currently 18
  options.  For any option > 10, apport will just take the '1' that is
  typed as the answer.

  It should obviously wait for more than one character or a carriage
  return.

  
  *** Please select the cloud vendor or environment in which this instance is running

  
  Choices:
    1: Amazon - Ec2
    2: AliYun
    3: AltCloud
    4: Azure
    5: Bigstep
    6: CloudSigma
    7: CloudStack
    8: DigitalOcean
    9: GCE - Google Compute Engine
    10: MAAS
    11: NoCloud
    12: OpenNebula
    13: OpenStack
    14: OVF
    15: Scaleway
    16: SmartOS
    17: VMware
    18: Other
    C: Cancel
  Please choose (1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/C): 1

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: apport 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 10 15:21:48 2017
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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