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: 1. 2. 3. 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"
Created attachment 41640 [details] screeenshot of vi assuming wrong terminal size
what version of baselayout and do you use RC_NOCOLORS ?
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?
i broke this in 1.11.1 but fixed it in 1.11.2 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32453 ***
