[systemd-devel] Need suggsetion on weird characters on RHEL7 !

Morgan Weetman mweetman at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 05:39:26 PDT 2014 

From memory that's pretty standard with vt100 emulation, I always noticed it in man pages .. have they tried setting TERM to xterm?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Manish Saxena" <msaxena at redhat.com>
> To: systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, "Red Hat Technical Discussion List" <tech-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2014 11:28:54 PM
> Subject: Need suggsetion on weird characters on RHEL7 !
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I need suggestion on a case 01270671, where customer is getting weird
> characters as below :
> Can some one suggest what is wrong?
> 
> ------------------------
> Weird characters when displaying man pages on RHEL 7.0
> 
> e.g. man firewall-cmd
> 
> ample 2
>        Enable port 443/tcp immediately and permanently in default zone. To
>        make the change effective immediately and
>        also after restart we need two commands. The first command makes the
>        change in runtime configuration, i.e.
>        makes it effective immediately, until restart. The second command
>        makes the change in permanent
>        configuration, i.e. makes it effective after restart.
> 
>            firewall-cmd --add-port=443/tcp
>            firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp
> 
> EXIT CODES
>        On success 0 is returned. On failure the output is red colored and
>        exit code is either 2 in case of wrong
>        command-line option usage or one of the following error codes in other
>        cases:
> 
>        ┌────────────────────┬──────┐
>        │String              │ Code │
>        ├────────────────────┼──────┤
>        │ALREADY_ENABLED     │   11 │
>        ├────────────────────┼──────┤
>        │NOT_ENABLED         │   12 │
>        ├────────────────────┼──────┤
>        │COMMAND_FAILED      │   13 │
>        ├────────────────────┼──────┤
>        │NO_IPV6_NAT         │   14 │
>        ├────────────────────┼──────┤
>        │PANIC_MODE          │   15 │
> 
> ---------------
> 
> Also customer can see these characters in other commands too e.g. systemctl
> 
> [root at eadmzu084p ~]# systemctl list-dependencies rpcbind.service
> rpcbind.service
> ├─rpcbind.socket
> ├─system.slice
> └─basic.target
>   ├─firewalld.service
>   ├─microcode.service
>   ├─rhel-autorelabel-mark.service
>   ├─rhel-autorelabel.service
>   ├─rhel-configure.service
>   ├─rhel-dmesg.service
>   ├─rhel-loadmodules.service
>   ├─paths.target
>   ├─slices.target
>   │ ├─-.slice
>   │ └─system.slice
>   ├─sockets.target
>   │ ├─dbus.socket
>   │ ├─dm-event.socket
>   │ ├─iscsid.socket
>   │ ├─iscsiuio.socket
>   │ ├─lvm2-lvmetad.socket
>   │ ├─systemd-initctl.socket
>   │ ├─systemd-journald.socket
>   │ ├─systemd-shutdownd.socket
>   │ ├─systemd-udevd-control.socket
>   │ └─systemd-udevd-kernel.socket
>   ├─sysinit.target
>   │ ├─dev-hugepages.mount
>   │ ├─dev-mqueue.mount
>   │ ├─dmraid-activation.service
>   │ ├─iscsi.service
>   │ ├─kmod-static-nodes.service
>   │ ├─lvm2-monitor.service
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Here is the output of env and os-release from customer end :
> 
> 
> [root@~]# env
> XDG_SESSION_ID=877
> HOSTNAME=eadmzu084p.ea.toyota-fs.com
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> TERM=vt100
> HISTSIZE=1000
> USER=root
> LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01!
>  ;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=01;36:*.au=01;36:*.flac=01;36:*.mid=01;36:*.midi=01;36:*.mka=01;36:*.mp3=01;36:*.mpc=01;36:*.ogg=01;36:*.ra=01;36:*.wav=01;36:*.axa=01;36:*.oga=01;36:*.spx=01;36:*.xspf=01;36:
> MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
> PWD=/root
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
> SHLVL=1
> HOME=/root
> LOGNAME=root
> LESSOPEN=||/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
> _=/bin/env
> 
> 
> -----------
> 
> [root at eadmzu084p ~]# cat /etc/os-release
> NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
> VERSION="7.0 (Maipo)"
> ID="rhel"
> ID_LIKE="fedora"
> VERSION_ID="7.0"
> PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
> ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
> CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:GA:server"
> HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
> 
> REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"
> REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.0
> REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
> REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.0
> [root at eadmzu084p ~]#
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> Any inputs will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Manish Saxena
> GSS, Red Hat Inc.
> 
>

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