From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 03:49:44 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: fix debconf warning mesages in emacs
X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?p=distro-setup;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b7f564b73290b98af5a76d0e207fe474eec59fe

fix debconf warning mesages in emacs
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diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index 067782e..e8651b5 100644
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ if [[ $- == *i* ]]; then
         export PAGER=cat
         export MANPAGER=cat
         stty echo
+        # debconf occasionally spews messages about wanting to initialize dialog
+        # and falling back to readline, since our terminal is dumb, then does nothing,
+        # This is a long standing bug. Here is the fix.
+        if [[ $DISPLAY ]]; then
+            export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome
+        else
+            export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline
+        fi
     else
         stty werase undef lnext undef stop undef start undef
         # terminal keys: C-c, C-z. the rest defined by stty -a are, at least in