[Bug 527369] Re: sudo lshw causes console to turn blue on dell inspiron 1011

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:49:37PM -0000, Jason Herne wrote:
> Bryce, thanks for testing this :)
> So I guess it is official. This bug (messed up terminal colors with lshw) is separate from 512251 (lshw lastmountpoint data corrupt).

I did a bit more poking at it.  It seems the issue is in the fb module.  
If I run:

  lshw -disable fb

This makes the issue not reproduce.

Narrowing it down further, it seems there's 3 fb's being opened, and the
corruption appears when fb[1] is opened, not fb[0] nor fb[2].

The attached simplified test case also reproduces the problem for me
when I run it as root.  If I run it as non-root, it produces the same
stdout but does not trigger the corruption.  Because of the test case I
think this demonstrates it's not a bug in lshw but perhaps something
deeper down, maybe in the kernel drm code.

Bryce

** Package changed: lshw (Ubuntu Lucid) => linux (Ubuntu Lucid)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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sudo lshw causes console to turn blue on dell inspiron 1011 and fujitsu livebook T4410
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