Re: Console problems

[Samuel Thibault]

Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Hurd, le mar. 14 janv. 2025 00:38:45 
+0100, a ecrit:
> In Hurd 2024 many lines (especially before and after a bash prompt)
> contain
>   ?2024h
> or
>   ?2024l
> 
> Which piece of software is causing this output, and how can I turn it off?

It seems to happen only on newly-installed debian systems, as I'm not
getting them on my old installations. I guess bash/libtinfo try to be
too smart and end up producing escapes sequences that are not actually
defined in the term definition:

TERM=mach-gnu-color infocmp

doesn't show anything that looks like \E?2024h

If you export TERM=dumb, that disappears, so it's really related to
terminal sequences. Even TERM=vt100 produces it, it really looks like
something in bash/libtinfo is inventing escape sequences.

Samuel