Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:50:46 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious bug in 4.9-RELEASE Message-ID: <20031103235046.GA25408@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20031103231726.GA25093@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <3FA6CF61.2040007@tenebras.com> <3FA6D26B.8030707@tenebras.com> <20031103144116.B86138@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3FA6DF58.4090804@tenebras.com> <20031103231726.GA25093@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:17:26AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:06:00PM -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > Doug White wrote: > > >On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Michael Sierchio wrote: > > >> > > >>>Well, this depends on your point of view. A cvsup, buildworld, > > >>>kernel, installworld causes: > > >>> > > >>>sapphire 214> /usr/games/hack > > >>>Terminal must backspace. > > >>> > > >> > > >>It appears that someone has messed up /usr/share/misc/termcap > > > > > > > > >Apparently you :) > > > > > >I can't reproduce this. Try reinstalling termcap manually. > > > > I reverted to the one from the previous release. The > > CVSuped version is the one causing the problem. > > > > These are xterm sessions that are done via xforwarding in sshd. > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 203413 Nov 3 14:57 termcap > > MD5 (termcap) = c4228c627c053151a6397951464d0510 > > That seems to be identical to the termcap file I have installed. > (Except for the mtime of course.) > I can't reproduce your problem either. I take that back. I can reproduce it, but only in xterm (I normally don't use X much, so I only tried it in a normal text console.) > > > > > /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src has a date of Oct 29 > > Sounds odd. The last time that file was changed in the RELENG_4 branch > was in May 2003, and the last time it was changed in -CURRENT was in > August 2003. > I would think somebody would have noticed the problem by now, if it > really was a problem with the termcap file from the cvs repository. But apparently not. The change back in May seems to be mainly xterm-related, so that is probably to blame. Strange that no other program seems to complain. (Or maybe not so strange. The "bs" capability that /usr/games/hack insists on is decribed in termcap(5) as an obsolete capability that new programs shouldn't depend on. It might be that it is /usr/games/hack that need to be updated to modern conventions.) As a workaround you can run 'hack' with TERM set to 'xterm-r6' -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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