Routine update to sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 (from 5.6-r1) breaks mutt, irssi in the way that ordinary text (mail bodies, mail index entries, irc messages), the stuff that is usually white on black is invisible (seems to be black on black). Reverting back to 5.6-r1 fixes the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
WFM. emerge --info -v output, please.
Just had a mid-air collision with your comment trying to paste this: Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23.12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23.12 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:46:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc6-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--nospinner" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en en_GB pl" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--progress" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/berkano /usr/local/overlays/antoni" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="16bit 7zip X a52 aac acl acpi activefilter afs alsa amr apache2 ares atm bacula-console bacula-split-init bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootspla bootsplash browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo calendar caps cdparanoia cdr cjk cli commercial cracklib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dba dbus dri dv dvd dvdr dynagraph eap-tls emboss encode evo exif faad fam fastbuild figlet flac fluidsynth foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut gpgme gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv idn imagemagick imap inkjar inquisitio iproute2 ipv6 ipw3945 irda irmc isdnlog iso14755 ithreads iwl3945 jabber jpeg kqemu ladcca ladspa lcms libgda libsamplerate linuxkeys logrotate mad maildir mbox midi mikmod mmx mng motif mozbranding moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack ncurses net nethack nls no-old-linux nodrm nojython nosrc nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openct opengl openmp operanom2 pam pcmcia pcre pcsc-lite pdf perl plotutils png pnp ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime radius readline reflection rtc ruby samba sdl session slang slp smartcard smime smp sndfile sox spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tabs tcl tcltk tcpd theora threads tidy tiff timidity tk tordns truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode urandom usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf x11vnc x86 xattr xetex xface xgetdefault xorg xrandr xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel,usb-audio,vxpocket,virmidi" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB pl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fglrx vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Well, the -v thing there is important, showing stuff like TERM ;)
sounds like misconfiguration on your system 5.6-r2 enabled support for colorfgbg which some terminals enable via $COLORFGBG
(In reply to comment #3) > Well, the -v thing there is important, showing stuff like TERM ;) Yeah, sorry: Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23.12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23.12 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:46:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc6-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" ACCEPT_LICENSES="*" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel,usb-audio,vxpocket,virmidi" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" AWT_TOOLKIT="MToolkit" BROWSER="opera -newpage" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." 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(In reply to comment #4) > sounds like misconfiguration on your system > > 5.6-r2 enabled support for colorfgbg which some terminals enable via $COLORFGBG Yeah, unsetting this variable restores original behaviour in mutt and irssi, still I didn't manage to trace, where I inherit this variable from (it has a value of "default;default;0", whatever that means).
Why is there no explanation to this resolution? I never set this variable anywhere manually, so it comes from my Gentoo system, so it might just as well affect other people. Please be at least kind enough to rule this possibility out.
Further research shows that this bug is only experienced in rxvt-unicode, when the foreground colour is set to grey as in: URxvt*foreground: grey When it's set to: URxvt*foreground: white I get grey colours in mutt/irssi (instead of black when fg color is set to grey), but then fg in my terminal is white, which is wrong. Anyhow, this is a bug, a needs to be fixed.
i already stated this is expected behavior ... ncurses merely respects the environment that other things set up. it certainly does not breaking any applications. if you want to complain about some terminal, go for it, but it is not ncurses or base-system's problem
