Bug 67279 – apps start in console with wrong console size

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description giggles1 2004-10-12 14:31:11 UTC]

This problem just recently started out of the blue.  I use konsole (KDE) for my console, and often times (but not always) applications that start up do not start up with the correct size.  dispatch-conf for instance, will often start up in the middle of an uncleared console, making things impossible to read.  I will attach a screenshot of vi starting up using only half the console.  Resizing the console fixes the problem for a short time, but it will usually happen again some time later.  

env shows that

TERM=xterm

I have tried re-emerging ncurses, kdebase, glibc, bash, etc. but so far cannot find a fix for this. *Any* suggestions are welcome. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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laptop ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51_rc9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0,
2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.1
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -fweb -ffast-math -march=pentium4 -ftracer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer "
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/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"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fweb -ffast-math -march=pentium4 -ftracer -pipe
-fomit-frame-pointer  -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://gentoo.ccccom.com
http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/ebuilds"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X Xaw3d aalib acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid atlas avi berkdb
bitmap-fonts bonobo cddb cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb dnd dv dvd dvdread
emacs encode esd ext-png ext-zlib f77 faad fbcon fbdev ffmpeg fftw flac
foomaticdb freetype fs gc gd gd-external gdbm ggi gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2
gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 java javascript
jdepend jikes jpegkde lcms libg++ libwww live mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mng motif
mozdomi mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mplayer
ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam passfile
pcmcia pcre pdflib perl pic plotutils png ppds python qt qtmt quicktime readline
ruby samba sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff
transcode truetype type1usb vim-with-x wifi wmf x86 xml xml2 xprint xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 giggles1 2004-10-12 14:37:05 UTC]

Created attachment 41640 [details]
screeenshot of vi assuming wrong terminal size

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-10-13 15:37:57 UTC]

what version of baselayout and do you use RC_NOCOLORS ?

[Comment 3 giggles1 2004-10-13 16:55:04 UTC]

Hi spanky, 

I am using baselayout 1.11.1 (for the wireless config stuff) and I have no idea what RC_NOCOLORS is.  It does not show up under env, or in any files in /etc or /etc/conf.d.  What does it do and where is it set?

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-10-13 16:57:17 UTC]

i broke this in 1.11.1 but fixed it in 1.11.2

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32453 ***