Bug 43970

Summary:	irssi scrolling broken with ncurses-5.4-r1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Malcolm Scott <m>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	net-irc, Yoh
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	43432
Bug Blocks:

Description Malcolm Scott 2004-03-07 10:34:05 UTC

The patch introduced by bug 43432 breaks scrolling in irssi. Scrolling works perfectly with ncurses-5.4 and earlier, but is broken in 5.4-r1.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =ncurses-5.4-r1 ; irssi
2. note scrolling is broken
3. emerge =ncurses-5.4 ; irssi
4. note that it's working again

Actual Results:  
When PageUp/PageDown are pressed, only half the screen scrolls; new messages
just overwrite the last line and do not redraw the whole screen; etc.


NB: I'm using konsole.


Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9,
2.4.22-physmem-patch3-5um)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-physmem-patch3-5um i686 UML
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo"
USE="apache2 berkdb crypt cups encode fam foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm imap imlib
ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww maildir mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis pam
passfile pdflib perl php png python quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl
tcpd truetype x86 xml2 zlib"

Comment 1 Malcolm Scott 2004-03-07 10:35:05 UTC

Can I suggest that ncurses-5.4 and ncurses-5.4-r1 should be put in ~x86 rather than x86 until this is resolved?

Comment 2 Malcolm Scott 2004-03-07 11:47:41 UTC

Having looked further into this, it seems this problem only occurs on one of the three machines I've tested. That machine runs stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86) whereas the other two are ~x86 - perhaps this is an issue with another related library in ~x86?

Comment 3 Thomas Dickey 2004-05-30 08:35:45 UTC

Someone asked about this on bug-ncurses at the beginning of April.
I pointed out that the issue was probably attempting to use
$TERM set to xterm-xfree86 for gnome-terminal (the interesting
difference was that the former supports the indn and rin strings
used for indexing aka scrolling, while the latter does not).

Comment 4 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev

2004-07-23 16:43:38 UTC

Some updates on this one:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2004-04/msg00002.html
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7209

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-03 03:00:17 UTC

still a problem with 5.4-r5 ?

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 16:46:23 UTC

re-open if latest ncurses still doesnt work