From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 04:29:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83B8B16A4CE; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 04:29:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8DFF43FEA; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 04:29:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0107C1024; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 04:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F4074FA9; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 04:29:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 04:29:55 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: deischen@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20031106042721.E26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org> X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Chris Pressey cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious (ha-ha) bug in 4.9-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:29:57 -0000 On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > Very critical indeed... And with such a huge userbase that it took > > six months before anybody noticed this problem. :-) > No, we noticed it here at work where we use Sun Solaris boxes as our > development systems. I didn't know what the problem was until now. It > is very very annoying to have man, more, less, etc, screw up your > display when using them while remotely logged in to our FreeBSD boxes. > The symptoms are that everything gets highlighted and underlined and it > stays that way forcing you to close the xterm and open another. If we > set TERM to xterm-r6 or xterm-r5, then everything seems to work OK. I brought this same problem up a while back, as it did the same thing to my xterm on my Irix boxes as well. It's not just FreeBSD, current Redhat releases do the same thing. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen