Bug 66550 – new ncurses 5.4-r5 in stable x86 causes havok on my ssh sessions

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description firefox 2004-10-06 10:38:56 UTC]

I emerged ncurses 5.4-r5 when it was released a few weeks ago to stable x86.
Since i only have ssh access to the machine, since i installed it, i'm having lots of problems with program that uses ncurses (including make menuconfig in the kernel) where it all shows wired, etc...
using screen makes it look better but still problematic.
This issue didnt happen on the latest stable version before -r5...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the new ncurses 5.4-r5 from stable x86
2. run via ssh (might be local problem as well) anything that uses ncurses
3.

Actual Results:  
All ncurses-based applications look wired

Expected Results:  
show stuff normally like it did in previous versions

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-10-06 15:40:08 UTC]

neglected to provide `emerge info`

[Comment 2 firefox 2004-10-10 08:04:32 UTC]

sorry, here is my "emerge info" for this bug:

Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686 Celeron (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.15/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="apm arts berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod ncurses nls oss pam perl png python readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype unicode x86 xml2 xprint zlib"

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-10-10 17:58:30 UTC]

define 'wrecks havoc'

take a screen shot so we can understand ...

[Comment 4 firefox 2004-10-11 07:18:28 UTC]

Created attachment 41542 [details]
this is the output of kernel's "make menuconfig"

i've added an screenshot which shows the problem, with the previous ncurses in
the default x86 tree, everything looked normal, like it should.

With emerge ncurses in the current x86 tree, a few ncurses programs i checked
look bad like this...

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2004-10-11 07:26:04 UTC]

if you resize your terminal just before running `make menuconfig` does that help ?

also, what terminal are you using (Eterm/kterm/putty/etc...) ?

do you use any LANG or LOCALE settings ?

perhaps the problem is with your USE=unicode ?  ncurses is outputting unicode-happy-text but your terminal can't handle it ...

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2004-10-21 11:28:14 UTC]

well, get back to us ;)