[18166] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.10: olc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Fri Aug 18 11:05:32 2000
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:05:28 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200008181505.LAA27237@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18159] in Athena Bugs"
Thanks for reporting this. The problem turned out to be version
skew between the version of ncurses that the olc_browser binary in the
olc-stock locker was built with and the version installed on our linux
machines; the specific lossage was a corrupt terminfo file getting
written into $HOME/.terminfo/x/xterm. The lossage is, unfortunately,
not consistant.
I've rebuilt the locker binary (and released the locker), and
submitted a patch so "olc answers" will use the olc_browser in the
release in the future. This lossage shouldn't affect users who are
running "olc answers" on our linux machines for the first time anymore,
but there may still be users with corrupt entries in $HOME/.terminfo.
If you encounter someone losing this way, it's safe to blow the entire
directory away.
Garry
