Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:21:45 -0700 From: "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: all my curses programs are screwed up Message-ID: <OE105ACTz8RQyi0Jhsg0000219b@hotmail.com>
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Nevermind, Making sure that TERM=cons25 apparently fixed the problems. Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, 2002 March 27 10:45 Subject: all my curses programs are screwed up > I installed a new installation of FBSD on a computer yesterday, and somewhere > in the middle of the installation (I think it was while scp'ing a large number > of files, eg a directory -- I know I should tar them up), something gets > screwed up, and now every program with curses does not work. sysinstall just > shows a bunch of q's and x's where there should be color bars, and the arrow > keys exit you from the program. In vi the arrow keys and page-down/up don't > work, and scrolling down past the first page just runs all the lines over one > another. In nano, the arrow keys work but scrolling is broken. Oh, the arrow > keys work in the terminal. > > It happened twice. I reinstalled from cd which fixed it the whole thing, but > then I scp'ed again, which if my theory is correct broke it again. The > install was 4.4 release, which I then cvsuped and world and kernel built to > 4.5 stable, which didn't fix it. Rebooting does not fix it. I've tried > setting all the terminal settings back to normal values with stty. I've tried > resetting the terminal with tset. I've tried reloading the keyboard map to > various mappings with kbdcontrol. Nothing that I could think of works. > > It seems to be related somehow to my question a little while ago about why > arrowing to the first column in vi takes you out of insert mode. Now, every > arrow responds the same way -- something is breaking up the escape sequences. > > Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Seth Hieronymus > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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