netplan try: terminal does not echo keypresses after ^C during wait

[Daniel Axtens]

[Impact]
All netplan users.

[Test case]
1) Run 'sudo netplan try' to "try" a new netplan config.
2) Hit Control-C during the timer, to escape to the terminal without applying the configuration.

Validate that text typed on the terminal after hitting Control-C is correctly echoed on screen.

[Regression Potential]
Some non-standard shells may behave differently with the console and expect a specific set of modes. Care has been taken to correctly record and restore the original terminal modes and flags, as well as testing on bash, dash, zsh, in a text VT, etc; but it is possible for non-standard terminals to misunderstand the mode changes and thus incorrectly handle Control-C or other mode changes required by 'netplan try' leading to failure to echo characters, mishandling carriage returns, clears, or invalid color schemes on terminal.

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If I do netplan try, press ^C during the wait, and try to type, my characters are not echoed to the terminal.

(This is similar to what powersj found in https://asciinema.org/a/176782 but different in that instead of Enter it's ^C that triggers it.)

I think you'll need to trap KeyboardInterrupt exceptions and reset afterwards? or use a try/finally construct to make sure things are reset?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package netplan.io - 0.38

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netplan.io (0.38) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Write udev .rules files to /run/udev/rules.d to enforce interface
      renaming. (LP: #1770082)
    - Don't traceback for 'netplan ip leases' when iface is not managed or
      doesn't DHCP (LP: #1768823)
    - Fix duplicate "/" path separator in error messages (LP: #1771440)
    - Fix incorrect terminal reset in 'netplan try' on Ctrl-C. (LP: #1768798)
    - Updated doc entries: mtu, fix fwmark->mark, cleanup optional.
      (LP: #1768783)
    - Added documentation validation at build.
    - Added configuration example for multi-ip interfaces.
  * tests/integration.py: fix test_eth_and_bridge autopkg test harder.
  * debian/control:
    - Add iproute2 to Depends.
    - Add python3-netifaces to Depends, Build-Depends.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:45:26 -0400

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.40~18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.40.1~18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

ubuntu@new-man:~$ dpkg -l netplan.io | grep ii
ii netplan.io 0.40.1~18.04.1 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction for various backends

I have verified that after hitting Control-C when running 'netplan try', all characters typed are again being echoed on the terminal.

The same applies to the other code paths for 'netplan try': timing out or accepting the changes all lead to the terminal behaving normally and echoing characters typed.

Marking verification-done.