WSL Ubuntu ssh-keygen error with things like ^[[F

[roachsinai]

I like this great guake-like console, but if I open it I get input errors when I use Microsoft/WSL. When I press Enter key, I sometimes got extra ^[[F output.

I thought it was a wsl problem first, finally I found maybe there is some conflicts between Qonsole and WSL or other reason I don't know.

roach@hwin:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "myself@email.com"
^[[FGenerating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/roach/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
.pub. same passphrase again:
The key fingerprint is:n saved in aved in
SHA256:some_code_like_Y38NnKD+LByV48bRmGri89dK1q+_this_things myself@email.com
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 4096]----+
|                 |
|                 |
|       o         |
|       .         |
|       o.     +  |
|        B      o |
|    .  . =@.* =  |
| E +           . |
| .=o.. +   .  ..o|
+----[SHA256]-----+
roach@hwin:~$ ls
^[[F''$'\033''[F'  ''$'\033''[F.pub'
roach@hwin:~$ eval $(ssh-agent -s)
^[[FAgent pid 1249
roach@hwin:~$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
^[[FEnter passphrase for /home/roach/.ssh/id_rsa:
Bad passphrase, try again for /home/roach/.ssh/id_rsa:
^[[FIdentity added: /home/roach/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/roach/.ssh/id_rsa)
roach@hwin:~$

There are many ^[[F, more details at WSL/3572.

[roachsinai]

If I close qonsole, the operations above works well.

[joedf]

Interesting... Thanks for reporting this.

If you run qonsole in the background, but run your program in a a separate normal cmd, do you still get this issue? Perhaps one of the key bindings in Qonsole is not correctly filtered.

[roachsinai]

No, man it's hard to locate it （╯‵□′）╯︵┴─┴. I reinstall wsl 3 times with different distributions. But glad to find reason.

As you can see, I press Enter several times in CMD which works well different to wsl termianl.

Ignore <<< shows on wsl, it means zsh auto suggestion plugin change to vim normal mode, by the way I don't know how ^[[F trigger that mode.

[roachsinai]

After quit qonsole things go well, the blank line maybe caused by the reaction time of wsl.

[roachsinai]

looks like the ^[[F may be as a result of using qonsole based on the virtual key sequence they're sending to the console. As a result it's rendering the ^[[F since there is a mismatch between UTF-8 and ASCII.

from WSL/3572.

[joedf]

Ok, I'll release a patch-fix. I have attached a test version. Let me know if it works...
Qonsole_v1.4.5b.zip

[roachsinai]

get this error.

[TakehiroTada]

Hi, I'm the same thing, too. Please help me.
I use v1.4.5b

[joedf]

Hmm... Weird... I didn't change anything with the attachment code...
A_LastError: 6 means ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE... It means Qonsole could not find the console window... Try opening a normal CMD window then launching Qonsole. I've had this issue for a long time, it seems Windows does something weird when a window is "hidden"...

[roachsinai]

Get same error both run from cmd and powershell. :-(

[joedf]

Nothing changed other than removing a keyboard config. You might have to reinitialize your settings or something...?
Also, maybe try checking the "Use legacy console" checkbox in cmd properties.

[roachsinai]

I removed old Qonsole_settings.ini and cmd_Qonsole and run Qonsole.exe to create them, and after the creation of them, I get the AttachFailure error.

The location of Qonsole on my pc is C:\Users\DD\Documents\__PortableSoft\Qonsole, the content of Qonsole_settings.ini is:

CMD_Path=C:\Users\DD\Documents\__PortableSoft\Qonsole\cmd_Qonsole.lnk

The target of cmd_Qonsole is C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe.

[joedf]

Ok... Are you able to revert to the original version with original settings, or does it crash also?

[roachsinai]

Sorry, I delete original settings, but original version Qonsole(1.4.4) get error now, too.