After 1) upgrade to gcc 4.1.1 2) upgrade to profile 2006.1 3) revdep-rebuild recompile for libstdc++ and for new profile uses (which included mc) Now, issuing mc at a terminal prompt (not inside X) shows no border characters. Does this have something to do with unicode support? The only way I can get any useful terminal output is to use the -a option for stick characters. Inside an xterm or similar, mc shows graphical characters fine. I re-emerged mc with -unicode, but the results are the same. Everything seemed to work fine until I changed the profile. After gcc-4.1.1 update, all was fine. Now, I have this profile: default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop ----------------------- peter@mars ~ $ mc -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1 Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, smbfs, undelfs With builtin Editor Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support peter@mars ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-beyond4pre1-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-beyond4pre1-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -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/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/mnt/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://206.75.217.180/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/mnt/src/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="/mnt/src/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/src/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/src/local/portage /mnt/src/local/overlays/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg lcms ldap libg++ mad mikmod mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slang spell spl ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis win32codecs xine xml xmms xorg xscreensaver xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ---------- [ Found these USE variables for app-misc/mc-4.6.1-r2 ] U I - - 7zip : add support for 7zip archives + + X : Adds support for X11 + + gpm : Adds support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) + + ncurses : Adds ncurses support (console display library) + + nls : Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) + + pam : Adds support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip + + samba : Adds support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing) + + slang : Adds support for the slang text display library (it's like ncurses, but different) + + unicode : Adds support for Unicode ------- BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="1" [2]="16" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i686-pc-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='3.1.16(1)-release' CLASSPATH=. COLUMNS=128 CONFIG_PROTECT='/usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /usr/share/config' CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK='/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash' CVS_RSH=ssh DIRSTACK=() EDITOR=/bin/nano EUID=0 FLTK_DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/fltk-1.1.6/html GCC_SPECS= GDK_USE_XFT=1 GROUPS=() G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 G_FILENAME_ENCODING=UTF-8 HISTFILE=/root/.bash_history HISTFILESIZE=500 HISTSIZE=500 HOME=/root HOSTNAME=mars HOSTTYPE=i686 HUSHLOGIN=FALSE IFS=$' \t\n' INFOPATH=/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/info JAVAC=/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/bin/javac JAVA_HOME=/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 JDK_HOME=/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 KDEDIRS=/usr LESS='-R -M --shift 5' LESSOPEN='|lesspipe.sh %s' LINES=48 LOGNAME=root MACHTYPE=i686-pc-linux-gnu MAIL=/var/mail/root MAILCHECK=60 MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/man::/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/vmware/workstation/man NS=--nospinner OPENGL_PROFILE=nvidia OPTERR=1 OPTIND=1 OSTYPE=linux-gnu PAGER=/usr/bin/less PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/jre/javaws:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/opt/vmware/workstation/bin PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/qt/3/lib/pkgconfig PPID=13196 PRELINK_PATH_MASK=/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10:/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8:/usr/lib/klibc PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\] ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' PWD=/root PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/portage/pym QMAKESPEC=linux-g++ QTDIR=/usr/qt/3 SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor SHLVL=1 TERM=linux UID=0 USER=root
They display just fine when your consolefont/consoletranslation and locales are set correctly. You didn't post any kind of this information, so really hard to guess what's wrong on your side. Also please note that bugzilla is not a support forum.
so then, why did it work before 2006.1? I changed no /etc files. # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # UNICODE specifies whether you want to have UNICODE support in the console. # If you set to yes, please make sure to set a UNICODE aware CONSOLEFONT and # KEYMAP in the /etc/conf.d/consolefont and /etc/conf.d/keymaps config files. UNICODE="yes" # /etc/conf.d/consolefont # CONSOLEFONT specifies the default font that you'd like Linux to use on the # console. You can find a good selection of fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts; # you shouldn't specify the trailing ".psf.gz", just the font name below. # To use the default console font, comment out the CONSOLEFONT setting below. # This setting is used by the /etc/init.d/consolefont script (NOTE: if you do # not want to use it, run "rc-update del consolefont" as root). CONSOLEFONT="default8x16" # CONSOLETRANSLATION is the charset map file to use. Leave commented to use # the default one. Have a look in /usr/share/consoletrans for a selection of # map files you can use. #CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-1_to_uni" # This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed. # The format is <locale>/<charmap>, where <locale> is a locale from the # /usr/share/i18n/locales directory, and <charmap> is name of one of the files # in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. All blank lines and lines starting with # are # ignored. Here is an example: # en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP/EUC-JP ja_JP.UTF-8/UTF-8 ja_JP/EUC-JP en_HK/ISO-8859-1 en_PH/ISO-8859-1 de_DE/ISO-8859-1 de_DE@euro/ISO-8859-15 es_MX/ISO-8859-1 fa_IR/UTF-8 fr_FR/ISO-8859-1 fr_FR@euro/ISO-8859-15 it_IT/ISO-8859-1
Sigh, post the output of locale command, not what you have built in glibc.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169818. This thread adds some color. For some reason, my locale is blank. Why would that be? When I recompiled glibc, it went through a lot of languages. 151 of them. peter@mars ~ $ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL=
Wonderful. So why are you setting UNICODE="yes" if your locale is POSIX??? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml
Hi Jakub, I can add a "me too" here. Manually adding /etc/env.d/02locale with the lines suggested in the gentoo doc is pretty much what I had to do to fix things up for MC. Running env-update and source /etc/profile finished it up. The thing that I don't understand is, why did it work correctly before my move to 2006.1? the 02locale file should have been created by... especially if localization is going to be the norm. By the way, setting UNICODE to "no" had no effect on the way mc was being effected.
(In reply to comment #6) > the 02locale file should have been created by... By what? And how? Using some random guess? Sorry, setting up locales correctly is users' job.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > the 02locale file should have been created by... > > By what? And how? Using some random guess? Sorry, setting up locales correctly > is users' job. > Yes, it is. Unfortunately, for over two years, I was happily running without incident. So, by updating to the 2006.1 profile, this problem occured. So, on the one hand, I was ignorant, but on the other hand, it was working fine without any user intervention. So, at the least, there should be some information for users to set LANG and LC_? so that programs will function as expected at the console. JM2C.
