bug#30505: marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Ludo,

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:01:31 +0100
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> The “\x1b;%G” sequences correspond to the “select UTF-8” console code
> (see console_codes(4)).  We’re receiving this as if we were a console,
> but in fact all we want is to exchange raw bytes between the host and
> the guest; we don’t want to be a full-fledged console.

A lot of the tests pass console=... and thus in fact have a real console.

It might be that our new automatic console getty interferes.
I doubt it - I checked agetty sources and it doesn't touch iutf8.
Might still be worth a try to remove agetty from %base-services.

check-system TESTS=basic works fine in master indeed ...

> this happens on ‘core-updates’ and not ‘master’.

That's a good question.

Anyway, I think these codes are emitted by unicode_start - so
as a first step, sabotage the kbd package so that it can't
use unicode_start.  Does it work then?