Mostly stable amd64 system. When ncurses updated to 6.1, mutt began displaying garbled output during use. Mailbox folder columns stopped lining up. Using the up-arrow/down-arrow keys to scroll through email causes previous console terminal contents to be displayed on part of the subject line. Stuff like that. Masking sys-libs/ncurses-6.1-r2, thereby forcing portage to downgrade to sys-libs/ncurses-6.0-r1 (the next lower stable version in the tree) fixes all of the display issues. $ emerge --info Portage 2.3.24 (python 2.7.14-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r10, 4.14.27-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.14.27-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3570_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 32930880 total, 10052396 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:15:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: e8e4002d9c22262bca86486d2d86a01620b151ce sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r4::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo, 3.6.3-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.34.11::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.29.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 6.4.0-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r3::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.13::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.25-r10::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: no sync-rsync-extra-opts: local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 0 printer-drivers location: /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers masters: gentoo priority: 50 vmware location: /var/lib/layman/vmware masters: gentoo priority: 50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA vmware" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.1/ext-active/ /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="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-march=native -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="-march=native -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/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 acl acpi activities alsa amd64 apache2 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli colord consolekit crypt cups curl cxx dbus declarative doc dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode examples exif fam flac fontconfig fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glamor gtk handbook iconv icu ipv6 jack java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kipi kpathsea kwallet lcms ldap libnotify lzma mad mbox mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl odbc ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit postgres ppds qml qt3support qt5 readline sdl seccomp semantic-desktop source spell ssl startup-notification svg t1lib tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vim-syntax vorbis webp widgets wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xpm xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_core authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_core authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers http2 ident imagemap include info lbmethod_byrequests log_config log_forensic logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif slotmem_shm socache_shmcb speling status unique_id unixd userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext 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="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev vmmouse wacom joystick" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en-US" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="nlpsolver presenter-minimizer wiki-publisher" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-1" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby22 ruby23" SANE_BACKENDS="epson2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel r600 radeon radeonsi vesa vmware" XFCE_PLUGINS="clock trash" 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, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
sweet. mutt-1.7.4 crashes during startup, so it seriously doesn't like ncurses-6.1
do you happen to have ncurses emerged with USE=tinfo?
# emerge -pv ncurses These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/ncurses-6.0-r1:0/6::gentoo USE="cxx doc threads unicode -ada -debug -gpm -minimal -profile -static-libs {-test} -tinfo -trace" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB "grep -R tinfo *" in /etc/portage returns with no match. No tinfo USE flag.
(In reply to Fabian Groffen from comment #2) > do you happen to have ncurses emerged with USE=tinfo? That should not affect anything.
(In reply to Bob Johnson from comment #0) > Mostly stable amd64 system. When ncurses updated to 6.1, mutt began > displaying garbled output during use. Mailbox folder columns stopped lining > up. Using the up-arrow/down-arrow keys to scroll through email causes > previous console terminal contents to be displayed on part of the subject > line. Stuff like that. > > Masking sys-libs/ncurses-6.1-r2, thereby forcing portage to downgrade to > sys-libs/ncurses-6.0-r1 (the next lower stable version in the tree) fixes > all of the display issues. > > $ emerge --info > Portage 2.3.24 (python 2.7.14-final-0, > default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r10, > 4.14.27-gentoo x86_64) > ================================================================= > System uname: > Linux-4.14.27-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3570_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with- > gentoo-2.4.1 > KiB Mem: 32930880 total, 10052396 free > KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free > Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:15:01 +0000 > Head commit of repository gentoo: e8e4002d9c22262bca86486d2d86a01620b151ce > sh bash 4.4_p12 > ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1 > app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo > dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r4::gentoo > dev-lang/perl: 5.24.3::gentoo > dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo, > 3.6.3-r1::gentoo > dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo > dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo > sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo > sys-apps/openrc: 0.34.11::gentoo > sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo > sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo > sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo > sys-devel/binutils: 2.29.1-r1::gentoo > sys-devel/gcc: 6.4.0-r1::gentoo > sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r1::gentoo > sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r3::gentoo > sys-devel/make: 4.2.1::gentoo > sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.13::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) > sys-libs/glibc: 2.25-r10::gentoo > Repositories: > > gentoo > location: /usr/portage > sync-type: rsync > sync-uri: rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage > priority: -1000 > sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: no > sync-rsync-extra-opts: > > local > location: /usr/local/portage > masters: gentoo > priority: 0 > > printer-drivers > location: /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers > masters: gentoo > priority: 50 > > vmware > location: /var/lib/layman/vmware > masters: gentoo > priority: 50 > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" > ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA vmware" > CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc > /usr/share/config /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt > /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" > CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release > /etc/php/apache2-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.1/ext-active/ > /etc/php/cli-php7.1/ext-active/ /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="-march=native -O2 -pipe" > DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" > FCFLAGS="-march=native -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="-march=native -O2 -pipe" > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" > LANG="en_US.utf8" > LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" > LINGUAS="en en_US" > MAKEOPTS="-j5" > PKGDIR="/usr/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 acl acpi activities alsa amd64 apache2 berkdb bluetooth > branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli colord consolekit crypt cups curl cxx dbus > declarative doc dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode examples exif fam flac > fontconfig fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glamor gtk handbook iconv icu ipv6 jack > java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde KDE user? kde-apps/konsole?
mutt-1.9.4-r1 went stable for amd64, I'd like to know if the garbled UI also occurs for that version.
Yes, the problem still persists with mutt-1.9.4-r1: # emerge -pv ncurses mutt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/ncurses-6.1-r2:0/6::gentoo USE="cxx doc threads unicode -ada -debug -gpm -minimal -profile -static-libs {-test} -tinfo -trace" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB [ebuild R ] mail-client/mutt-1.9.4-r1::gentoo USE="crypt doc gdbm gpgme hcache imap mbox nls sasl smtp ssl -berkdb -debug -gnutls -gpg -idn -kerberos -libressl -lmdb -nntp -notmuch -pgp_classic -pop (-prefix) -qdbm (-selinux) -slang -smime -smime_classic -tokyocabinet -vanilla" 0 KiB Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB The above configuration exhibits the issue. Jeroen Roovers may be right that this is actually a problem with ncurses and konsole, as I'm running KDE and konsole. I emerged good old xterm and ran mutt in an xterm and it did not exhibit the same problem with the above configuration.
BTW, I did some research myself and came to the same conclusion as Holger Hoffstätte in https://bugs.gentoo.org/653370 ; edit the TERM environment variable and change xterm-256color to just xterm-color and all of the ncurses-6.1 issues with konsole seem to go away (mutt, htop, etc. etc.)
reassigning per comment #8
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 648338 ***
