Couldn't reply Y to Y/N question in terminal

[Thom Hurks]

I'm testing Herd 2 when I found this bug.
I was in the terminal you can logon to from the login screen ("safe mode").
I did gksudo "apt-get update" and found new packages, then I did gksudo "apt-get upgrade".
It found 90 MB of new packages, good of course, but then it asked me if I wanted to continue with a J/N question.
It said J/N because I'm using Dutch Ubuntu. It didn't accept the J though, I tried both J and j but after pressing Enter the terminal simply stopped, the action was ended. I figured it was a bug in Dutch translation, so I switched to English(GB), there I tried to answer Y and y, both didn't work! In the end I used gksudo "apt-get upgrade -y" so it automatically answers yes to all, that worked of course but it's pretty dirty. Funny thing is that in an earlier install of Feisty (before Herd 2) I had the exact same problem, but I figured it had something to do with a corrupt install, but now I can duplicate the bug with a new install.

[Thom Hurks (thomhurks)]

A bot (or a user?) suddenly set this bug to APT, I don't think this bug is related to APT however. More likely it's a terminal issue. How do I change this?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Changed it to terminal. Thom what terminals hav eyou tried this under? I am not able to reproduce this in konsole nor gnome-terminal.

[Thom Hurks (thomhurks)]

The default Ubuntu terminal, so I guess it's gnome-terminal. Note that I did use latest of Feisty.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

apt uses :

nl_langinfo(YESEXPR)

so it may be a problem with the durch localization? Does this problem happens on edgy as well? Or only on feisty?

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

If it is really a problem with the localization, then "locales" is probably the right package to assign it to.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Changed package to language-pack-nl-base.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thom does this still happen by chance on a fully up-to-date feisty?

[Thom Hurks (thomhurks)]

I still got this issue after changing to English(GB), so the localization is not the issue unless the Feisty localizations are incomplete so it can't switch 100% properly. I'll apt-upgrade my Feisty again and check back if I still get the issue in some way. Of course I'll need to create a situation in which I get a Y/N question first.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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