Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 01:21:11 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Strange Termcap behavior on 4.0-Stable Message-ID: <3923A7F7.55D20077@3-cities.com> References: <200005180759.e4I7xxW30810@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <39239474.F3BC619B@3-cities.com>, Kent Stewart writes: > > > > > > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > > > > In message <3923113A.8D37A144@3-cities.com>, Kent Stewart writes: > > > > When I telnet to two of my systems and su to root. The terminal setup > > > > for ansi or cons25 goes away. For example, if I do a > > > > "/usr/src/release/sysinstall/rtermcap ansi" as root, nothing appears. > > > > If I exit and do it on my original login, I see > > > > > > > > ansi|any ansi terminal with pessimistic > > > > assumptions:co#80:li#24:cl=50\E[;H\E[2J: > > > > bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:ce=\E[K:ho=\E[H:pt: > > > > > > > > This doesn't happen on my system with a buildworld of 10 May 2000. > > > > > > For the systems that you have the problem on, what date were they > > > CVSuped or built? > > > > This one doesn't work. It was cvsup'ed just before the build world. > > The world and kernel are from the same cvsup. Ruby was broken before > > this cvsup. I also cleaned /usr/obj (it had been linked before and I > > unlinked it) before I did the last set of builds. > > > > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD ruby.kbs.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #2: Tue May 16 > > 17:38:23 PDT 2 > > 000 root@ruby.kbs.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/RUBY i386 > > > > These work but have been left alone because of the problem. > > > > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD jade.kbs.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #11: Wed May 10 > > 13:06:20 PDT > > 2000 root@jade.kbs.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/JADE i386 > > > > opal# uname -a > > FreeBSD opal.kbs.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #2: Sat May 13 > > 02:47:42 PDT 2 > > 000 root@opal.kbs.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/OPAL i386 > > > > > > > > > > > Something has happened and it really messes up trying to edit from a > > > > telnet session as root. The setup for xterm's still works but I can't > > > > telnet in from a Window's system. > > > > > > > > This also messes up building sysinstall. The generated code for the > > > > ansi and 5 or 6 cons.... is totally bogus and kills the compile. > > > > > > What does tset - -S display? > > > > On Ruby as root > > > > ruby# tset - -S > > ansi > > ansi ruby# > > > > On ruby as user > > $ tset - -S > > ansi > > ansi > > ansi:co#80:li#24:cl=50\E[;H\E[2J:bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:ce=\E > > [K:ho=\E[H:pt:$ > > > > on jade as root > > jade# tset - -S > > ansi > > ansi > > ansi:co#80:li#24:cl=50\E[;H\E[2J:bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:ce=\E > > [K:ho=\E[H:pt:jade# > > > > On Jade as user > > $ tset - -S > > ansi > > ansi > > ansi:co#80:li#24:cl=50\E[;H\E[2J:bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:ce=\E > > [K:ho=\E[H:pt:$ > > > > I thought Opal was broken but it looks like I could have been double > > telneted to ruby when I was having problems. When I first saw this, I > > thought I had a corrupted termcap.db but then I found I could edit as > > a user, just not as root. They are running different shells. My user > > shell is pdksh and I have left root as csh. It is almost like I have a > > permission problem somewhere. All three of these machines are > > conversions to 4.0 with clean installs. Ruby, which has the termcap > > problem, only runs FreeBSD 4.0-Stable. > > > > I can make sysinstall on the two systems but not on ruby. > > After a cursory look at the commit logs and looking at the stock .cshrc > and .login, the only conclusion I can come to is that it must be > somewhere in your dot files or in your login.conf. You may want to > verify that you didn't corrupt your login.conf file during the upgrade. I mounted ruby's files systems and did a diff. They are the same on ruby and jade. It was a good call. Ruby had a .terminfo file. I mv'ed it to o.terminfo and I had an ansi terminal back. I could also make sysinstall. Thanks, Kent > > I'm currently building world as of May 17 @ 04:15 PDT (planned) on a > chrooted filesystem (if I, buildworld, or installworld screws up I > still have my original system). When it completes I'll boot it and see > if I have the same problem. > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA > Province of BC -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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