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Date:      Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:48:49 +1000
From:      Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au>
To:        rasz <raszobbi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports options not coming up
Message-ID:  <1238708929.44542.106.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <49D4AC76.1060002@gmail.com>
References:  <1238673434.44542.104.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <49D4AC76.1060002@gmail.com>

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On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 14:15 +0200, rasz wrote:
> Da Rock wrote:
> > I'd to debug this, but I'm not even sure where to start. On just one
> > system since some recent updates I have no options screens coming up for
> > ports. I get a blue screen and then nothing; stdout says options
> > unchanged.
> >
> > It is a vm if that means anything?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
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> >   
> if i understand you correctly, and this is the same thing, i have had 
> this happen when
> building ports in a terminal emulator of sorts, particularly  the xfce4 
> one (and maybe kde4 konsole)
> when the actual window is too small (e.g. in number of lines). i would 
> see the blue screen for a bit and then
> options unchanged. it doesn't happen if at all if i keep the window a 
> good size, but i don't know about VM.

You know, I followed the vm track but I never even considered the
terminal! Duh! :)

Cheers




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