Bug 42234 – mirrorselect -i malforms terminal size

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2004-02-20 02:57:26 UTC]

If you are in a standard console and try to do:
# mirrorselect -i
mirrorselect doesn't work, puts strange characters in the Gentoo Mirrors string in /etc/make.conf
After doing that, the terminal is resized and cannot be restored, not even by killing the agetty
For example, if I have a resolution of 1280x1024 in my terminal, it seems to bring it down to 640x480 and then, while the terminal 
occupies the entire screen, only a small area can be used.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. mirrorselect -i
Actual Results:  
mirrorselect didn't let me manually select the mirrors, put garbage in /etc/make.conf and messed with the terminal size.

Expected Results:  
Firstly, it should have let me select manually the mirrors.
Secondly, it shouldn't have done that to the terminal.

mirrorselect version: 0.82-r3

[Comment 1 Jukka Palko 2004-02-22 06:34:50 UTC]

Getting same thing, seems to write the selection dialog into GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC fields for me in /etc/make.conf.

[Comment 2 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-02-23 05:30:35 UTC]

*** Bug 40379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 07:26:56 UTC]

*** Bug 42933 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-03-21 03:28:25 UTC]

*** Bug 44092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-03-21 03:29:25 UTC]

this has now been resolved in v0.83 but this isnt in portage yet
Ill bump it directly to stable within the next few hours.
thanks very much for submitting.

[Comment 6 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2004-03-21 04:32:10 UTC]

Thanks for solving the problem :)