Bug 67530

Summary:	mc crashes if TERM environment variable unset
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Erik Thiele <erik>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) <lanius>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Erik Thiele 2004-10-14 04:10:53 UTC

if the TERM environment variable is not set, mc crashes

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start an xterm
2. verify that TERM=xterm
3. start mc, see that it works, stop it again
4. unset TERM
5. verify that TERM=
6. start mc
7. See Segmentation Fault



Expected Results:  
say "i cannot run with dumb terminal"

Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-23 15:17:26 UTC

why should one unset the TERM variable?

Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-06 07:19:46 UTC

why should one unset the TERM variable?

Comment 3 Erik Thiele 2004-11-07 22:07:36 UTC

well, it happened by accident that my TERM variable got unset.
but imagine if all programs just crash in case of wrong parameters.
this is not the way to write programs. it's an error and must be fixed.

you should not argue "why should one unset the TERM variable?"

X11 programs also don't just silently crash if the DISPLAY variable is unset.
instead they all display useful error message.

did you report the issue upstream or just silently ignore it??

Comment 4 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-08 13:39:35 UTC

that's correct indeed, i'll look into reporting it upstream

Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-17 05:46:54 UTC

fixed in -r12