From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 19 05:16:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE3B1065692 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:16:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127278FC08 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 454 invoked by uid 399); 19 Oct 2009 05:16:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 19 Oct 2009 05:16:44 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4ADBF637.8090206@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:16:39 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090822) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, ed@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Apparent console regressions in -current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:16:46 -0000 Ed, I was trying to debug an unrelated problem today and noticed what appear to be some console regressions. I'm running r198216 i386 SMP with no local patches. The two things I tried doing were using less(1) on a group of files and running 'make config' on a port. In the first case it would display a few files (small ones, less than one screenful) but after 4 or 5 files the display would stop about 1/2 way down the screen. I use less with the following environment string if it helps: LESS='-eiFP?f%f .?n?m(file %i of %m) ..?e(END) ?x- Next\: %x.:?pB%pB\%..%t' Doing 'make config' in ports uses dialog, which exhibited the same basic problem, the 1/3 to 1/2 of the display would have the output from dialog and the rest would be blank. The specific port was emulators/virtualbox but I tried a few others and got the same result. Doing both of these things works in an xterm (roxterm to be specific) so it seems to be a console issue. My kernel config is pretty close to GENERIC with a bunch of stuff removed. The only thing even vaguely console-related is 'options VESA' but I don't have anything custom configured for my console except keybell="visual" in /etc/rc.conf. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/