I have a weird problem with nano. Since a couple of days, when I start nano (with or without the -w option) nano gets out of control. What happens is: at first the normal edit screen opens, but in the top line, an extra message[ "edit_refresh(): edittop->lineno = 1" appears. After that, another message like "get_accepted_kbinput(): kbinput = 25, meta_key = 0" repeatedly appears when I scroll page up or page down. However, when I scroll with arrow down it really gets worse: my screen font gets corrupted. I see odd messages ending in "...AHA!". Then, when I exit with Ctrl+X, it yells at me like this:" parse_rcfile(): Read a comment (--- repeated many times ---) Main: set up windows delete_node(): free'd a node, YAY! (--- repeated many times ---)" It happens both in the console and within a KDE terminal screen. I also sometimes get other messages. Does anybody have a clue what to do? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.5-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.6 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/ /var/qmail/control /var/www/localhost/htdocs//mythweb/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://GentooMirror/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://GentooMirror/gentoo-portage" USE="S3TC X X509 aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bsh cdr cgi cjk crypt cups curl debug dga directfb doc dvd dvdr encode esd fbcon foomaticdb foreign-package foreign-sysvinit freetype fs gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk2 imap imlib innodb ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg kde kerberos krb4 lcd ldap libg++ libwww mad md5sum memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql nas ncurses nls nvidia oav odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl openssh oss pam pcap pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl skey slang slp snmp spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff transcode truetype type1 unicode usb wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
The version of nano that I use is 1.3.2. I tried to downgrade to 1.3.1 or even 1.2.3 but that didn't help. Then I downgraded ncurses from 5.4-r1 first to 5.4, then to 5.3-r5, based on info in other bug reports, but I still have this problem.
Hey?! It looks like it's solved... I'm not sure why, but I suddenly thought I'd try to turn off the "debug" USE flag. It looks OK now, still testing...
please reopen then if it continues
Does this mean that nothing will happen? I mean is an application, especially such as basic one as nano, supposed to act like this with a DEBUG flag?