Upgrading to ncurses-6.1 breaks alsamixer's (alsautils-1.1.5) UI. Screenshots attached.
Created attachment 520362 [details] Screenshot with ncurses 6.0
Created attachment 520364 [details] Screenshot with ncurses 6.1
$ emerge --info =media-sound/alsa-utils-1.1.5 Portage 2.3.24 (python 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd, gcc-7.3.0, glibc-2.26-r6, 4.14.20-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.14.20-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2500K_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 16397916 total, 13787288 free KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194300 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 03:26:21 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 3e74a37d845dd9cd88a521f1b9f7d5d4f093a308 Head commit of repository flatpak-overlay: 8e157d3d671b3d9b1a265e99b581d8d746f70816 sh bash 4.4_p19 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p1) 2.30.0 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p19::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.26.1-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.10.2::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.15.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.30::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 7.3.0::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.9.1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r4::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r2::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.15::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.26-r6::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /mnt/Data/portage sync-type: git sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/repo/sync/gentoo.git priority: -1000 local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo flatpak-overlay location: /usr/local/flatpak-overlay sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/fosero/flatpak-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 interactive-fiction location: /var/lib/layman/interactive-fiction masters: gentoo priority: 50 seden location: /var/lib/layman/seden masters: gentoo priority: 50 steam-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 50 vapoursynth location: /var/lib/layman/vapoursynth masters: gentoo priority: 50 vmware location: /var/lib/layman/vmware masters: gentoo priority: 50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -mtune=native -march=native -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -mtune=native -march=native -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/mnt/Data/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--backtrack=200" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--sort-common" LINGUAS="en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/mnt/Data/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi activities amd64 berkdb bzip2 cairo cli colord crypt cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam flac gdbm gif glamor gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk iconv introspection ipv6 jpeg kde kipi kwallet lcms libnotify libsecret linguas_en linguas_en_US mad mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib nautilus ncurses nptl nvidia offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf pgo phonon plasma png policykit ppds pulseaudio qml qt3support qt5 readline seccomp spell ssl startup-notification svg systemd tcpd tiff tracker truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vdpau vorbis wayland widgets wxwidgets xattr xcb xcomposite xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en-US en" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby22 ruby23" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= media-sound/alsa-utils-1.1.5::gentoo was built with the following: USE="libsamplerate ncurses -bat -doc -nls (-selinux)" ABI_X86="(64)"
Please tell us what terminal emulator you use.
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #4) > Please tell us what terminal emulator you use. Konsole 17.12.3.
I cannot reproduce, at least with gnome-terminal and from console Anyway, maybe you can try with 1.1.6 newer version
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #6) > I cannot reproduce, at least with gnome-terminal and from console Same here. It only happens in Konsole. > Anyway, maybe you can try with 1.1.6 newer version Same issue.
This appears to have been fixed in konsole 18.04.0 (or perhaps 18.04.1, not sure.) Closing.
(However, stable users will still have the breakage, since 18.04.x is still ~arch.)
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But the ncurses version that breaks old konsole is in stable
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should be fixed with current stable kde-apps/konsole-18.04.3
Indeed.