On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:07:12PM -0500, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On 26-Jul-07, 08:42 (CDT), Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does the new .deb in unstable fix this for you? > > Yes and no. It works in an rxvt, but not in a console. (It's possible > that my patched version worked on a rxvt too; I didn't think to try > that.) In a console, I get no accepted keystrokes. Other ncurses > programs (e.g. nvi) seem to work just fine.
Ew. That suggests you have a different problem than the EINTR bug. > Okay, so I ran an upgrade (via the rxvt instance) which installed a week > or two worth of updates. I then rebooted (into the same kernel), and now > aptitude works fine in the linux console, as well. Weird stuff...if you > think it matters, I'll send you the log of what was upgraded. I don't know any reason that 0.4.6 would fail before you installed a pile of random updates, and work afterwards. I suspect there may be more than one bug here, but I'll have to collect user reports to find out what's happening. Either that or you have gremlins. :-) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
