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Date:      Sat, 07 Apr 2001 03:54:00 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010407035400.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010406085912.A20772@spawn.nectar.com>

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On 06-Apr-2001 Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
>  Uh oh, I have this, too, on my laptop.  I noticed it several days ago,
>  but promptly forgot about it when I moved on to do something else.  In
>  my case, I was trying to  do something interactively with guile -- you
>  can imagine how impossible that is without '(' :-)

Yes :)

>   cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
>           eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^H; erase2 = (; intr = ^C; kill = ^U;
>           lnext = ^V; min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q;
>           status = ^G; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W;
>  
>  Hmm, somewhere erase2 is getting set to the left paren.

I have a fresh install of 4.3 here which exhibits the same problem. What
version of X are you using?
(both xterm and eterm exhibit it)

>  This is  happening with  xterm and  rxvt, but not  on the  console.  I
>  can't reproduce it on my desktop, which is running the same version of
>  FreeBSD and XFree86.  I guess now that  I'm aware of it again I'll try
>  to figure out what is going on.  Hints welcome.

Absolutly none :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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