Re: [Xen-API] Console Login Bug?

[Graham Frank <jakiao@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some additional details --

1. Happens in XenCenter 6.0.2 53158 as well
2. Discovered Shift 3 backspaces while Shift 2 erases back to home

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Graham Frank <jakiao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm running a handful of resource pools running XCP 1.6 61809c. The
> XenCenter version is 6.0 50489.
>
> Beginning last night, a strange problem has spread across all of our
> Linux VMs. Any Linux VM with an @ symbol in the password appears to be
> triggering a bug in the XenCenter console.
>
> Example: I login to a Linux VM over console and it works fine. I exit.
> I try to login again. All further attempts fail. And now I find that
> any attempt to console to any VM on any resource pool where I have to
> type the @ results in complete failure. This includes VMs that I could
> login to just moments ago.
>
> So what's going on? You can see it when you try to type the password
> as the username. Upon sending the @ symbol (either thru the keystroke
> or pasting the text), all text prior to the @ symbol is erased.
>
> SSH still works and the VMs individually appear to be okay. KVM to
> real Linux servers doesn't experience this issue either. If you're
> already logged into the VM in the Xen console, then you can type @ all
> you want. This issue is not happening on Windows VMs as far as I can
> tell.
>
> It is happening on multiple computers to all of our staff. The issue
> began last night.
>
> Does anybody have some insight to this issue? Thanks.
>
> --Graham

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