Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 01:06:37 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious bug in 4.9-RELEASE Message-ID: <20031104000637.GA25819@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20031103155057.578599c6.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> References: <3FA6CF61.2040007@tenebras.com> <3FA6D26B.8030707@tenebras.com> <20031103144116.B86138@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3FA6DF58.4090804@tenebras.com> <20031103231726.GA25093@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20031103155057.578599c6.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:50:57PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:17:26 +0100 > Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > > > I am quite certain it is a local problem at your end. > > Seems odd that it would be affecting my system as well, then :) Alright, so I was mistaken. It is not a local problem. > > > What value is your TERM environment variable set to? > > # echo $TERM > xterm > > Note that the problem doesn't show up for me under cons25. Yeah, I noticed. Eventually. > > The md5 hash of my /usr/share/misc/termcap is identical to the one given > in the previous message. > > I have no idea. It seems that the termcap entry for xterm was substantially changed between 4.8-release and 4.9-release. One change was the removal of of the "bs" capability which /usr/games/hack requires. That capability is documented as being obsolete and that programs shouldn't depend on it, so it seems that the bug is in /usr/games/hack rather than termcap. Most of the programs in /usr/games are old and hasn't been updated in a long while, so it isn't exactly surprising that things break eventually as the rest of the system changes. (The termcap code in /usr/games/hack doesn't seem to have been changed since it was first imported back in 1994.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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