On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:10:35PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-09 23:59:43 CEST]: > > Thomas Dickey, le Wed 08 Oct 2008 20:00:32 -0400, a écrit : > > > With the latest update, ncurses won't try to use gpm if $TERM doesn't > > > contain "linux", unless it's overridden (with a new environment variable). > > > > Ah, indeed. Rhonda, Zito or Simon, could you check whether upgrading > > your libncurses5 and libncursesw5 to 5.6+20081004-1 fixes the bug? I > > think that should fix it for the usual cases. > > These packages are currently installed: > > w3m 0.5.2-2+b1, Versions of packages w3m depends on:
I already commented on w3m. It's using names from ncurses without actually using the ncurses library, to fool gpm into working by calling w3m's code. See http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#using_gpm_lib > ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libgc1c2 1:6.8-1.1 conservative garbage collector > for > ii libgpm2 1.20.4-2 General Purpose Mouse - shared > lib > ii libncurses5 5.6+20081004-1 shared libraries for terminal > hand > ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-13 SSL shared libraries > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime > > Doesn't solve the issue, unfortunately. I've upgraded all my ncurses > packages, after that started gpm and did run and quit > 'w3m http://nm.debian.org/' exactly seven times (reproducible), likewise > with pdmenu: ...Of the programs mentioned, ncurses updates should only affect aptitude. pdmenu does not appear to rely on ncurses (see my first reply). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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