Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:45:42 -0700 From: "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: all my curses programs are screwed up Message-ID: <OE128IS6BcTeJ5GwuIW0002b054@hotmail.com>
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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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