From f17027eeaa98e3ee5517b1836aabd56a13df5e1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Eischer <michael.eischer@fau.de>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 23:06:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] termstatus: flush before reading password from terminal

---
 internal/ui/termstatus/status.go | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/internal/ui/termstatus/status.go b/internal/ui/termstatus/status.go
index 3803882e6..79bb0a296 100644
--- a/internal/ui/termstatus/status.go
+++ b/internal/ui/termstatus/status.go
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ type Terminal struct {
 }
 
 type message struct {
-	line string
-	err  bool
+	line    string
+	err     bool
+	barrier chan struct{}
 }
 
 type status struct {
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ func Setup(stdin io.ReadCloser, stdout, stderr io.Writer, quiet bool) (*Terminal
 		if term.outputWriter != nil {
 			_ = term.outputWriter.Close()
 		}
+		term.Flush()
 		// shutdown termstatus
 		cancel()
 		wg.Wait()
@@ -141,6 +143,7 @@ func (t *Terminal) InputRaw() io.ReadCloser {
 
 func (t *Terminal) ReadPassword(ctx context.Context, prompt string) (string, error) {
 	if t.InputIsTerminal() {
+		t.Flush()
 		return terminal.ReadPassword(ctx, int(t.inFd), t.errWriter, prompt)
 	}
 	if t.OutputIsTerminal() {
@@ -210,6 +213,10 @@ func (t *Terminal) run(ctx context.Context) {
 			return
 
 		case msg := <-t.msg:
+			if msg.barrier != nil {
+				msg.barrier <- struct{}{}
+				continue
+			}
 			if terminal.IsProcessBackground(t.fd) {
 				// ignore all messages, do nothing, we are in the background process group
 				continue
@@ -284,6 +291,10 @@ func (t *Terminal) runWithoutStatus(ctx context.Context) {
 		case <-ctx.Done():
 			return
 		case msg := <-t.msg:
+			if msg.barrier != nil {
+				msg.barrier <- struct{}{}
+				continue
+			}
 
 			var dst io.Writer
 			if msg.err {
@@ -307,6 +318,20 @@ func (t *Terminal) runWithoutStatus(ctx context.Context) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Flush waits for all pending messages to be printed.
+func (t *Terminal) Flush() {
+	ch := make(chan struct{})
+	defer close(ch)
+	select {
+	case t.msg <- message{barrier: ch}:
+	case <-t.closed:
+	}
+	select {
+	case <-ch:
+	case <-t.closed:
+	}
+}
+
 func (t *Terminal) print(line string, isErr bool) {
 	// make sure the line ends with a line break
 	if len(line) == 0 || line[len(line)-1] != '\n' {

From 30ed992af98ecde54dbe1e85df1d4a2762a8a7a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Eischer <michael.eischer@fau.de>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 23:08:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] termstatus: flush output before returning OutputRaw()
 writer

This prevents mangling the output due to delayed messages.
---
 internal/ui/termstatus/status.go      | 1 +
 internal/ui/termstatus/status_test.go | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/internal/ui/termstatus/status.go b/internal/ui/termstatus/status.go
index 79bb0a296..3265c7a04 100644
--- a/internal/ui/termstatus/status.go
+++ b/internal/ui/termstatus/status.go
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ func (t *Terminal) OutputWriter() io.Writer {
 // other option. Must not be used in combination with Print, Error, SetStatus
 // or any other method that writes to the terminal.
 func (t *Terminal) OutputRaw() io.Writer {
+	t.Flush()
 	return t.wr
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/ui/termstatus/status_test.go b/internal/ui/termstatus/status_test.go
index f6b885cee..f65bb096f 100644
--- a/internal/ui/termstatus/status_test.go
+++ b/internal/ui/termstatus/status_test.go
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ func TestReadPasswordTerminal(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRawInputOutput(t *testing.T) {
 	input := io.NopCloser(strings.NewReader("password"))
 	var output bytes.Buffer
-	term := New(input, &output, io.Discard, false)
+	term, cancel := Setup(input, &output, io.Discard, false)
+	defer cancel()
 	rtest.Equals(t, input, term.InputRaw())
 	rtest.Equals(t, false, term.InputIsTerminal())
 	rtest.Equals(t, &output, term.OutputRaw())

From e320ef0a6266e22b2dfd7249f767a2b7ab0c745d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Eischer <michael.eischer@fau.de>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 23:15:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] add changelog

---
 changelog/unreleased/issue-5477 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/unreleased/issue-5477

diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-5477 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-5477
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f56cca84b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-5477
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Bugfix: Password prompt was sometimes not shown
+
+The password prompt for a repository was sometimes not shown when running
+the `backup -v` command. This has been fixed.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5477
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5554