After upgrading ncurses to 5.5-r2 the screen is garbled after switching from one mail to another. Pressing ctrl-l redraws the screen correctly. Using ncurses 5.4-r6 works fine. Using xterm instead of Eterm works fine, too. Versions installed: x11-terms/eterm-0.9.3-r4 mail-client/muttng-20060415 Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.75/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apache2 apm atm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cli crypt cups divx4linux dri dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode esd ethereal fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline real reflection samba sasl sdl session smtp spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vcd vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xinetd xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** Bug 137912 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 90080 [details] screenshot with garbled output
Created attachment 90081 [details] screenshot after redrawing with ctrl-l
I don't see any obvious differences between TERM=Eterm and TERM=xterm running on Debian/testing - the terminfo's don't differ in the area of clearing text. To verify that it's related to the terminfo, I'd make a typescript using 'script' and analyze that (verify that cat'ing the typescript on a comparable terminal type gives the same result, see what escape sequences it's using via the unmap utility on my ncurses ftp site, etc).
Oops. Sorry to bother you guys, i just noticed i had some screwup, causing a wrongly set TERM. Having that fixed everything seems to work as intended - a classical PEBKAC problem. ;-)
