> Nidge: I don't know why yours is hosed, but since it's worked for so many > other people, and you mentioned problems with joe as well, it's probably > something you hosed yourself.
Yes but the 'upgrade' went OK with no errors, so how can that be ? I don't want to get into a battle on who's fault it was, These things happen for whatever reasons. All I want to do is mend it! It is odd that I have the exact same problems on TWO upgraded machines here eh? Surely *I* didn't hose them both identically. That I find hard to believe? > Do you have $TERMINFO set perhaps, AH! Now were getting somehwere. Everyone keeps mentioning TERMINFO and TERMCAP. But how do I know if mines OK. how do I test the paths etc. > to a path containing not-up-to-date terminfo files? HUH! Now I am really confused? Why to not-up-to-date? What is the point of upgrading a package to point the path back at the old one? > When you did the debian 2.0 upgrade, did it ask you if you wanted to > replace some files in the terminfo package, and you said no? Not sure. I think I said Y to almost every question is asked like 'do you want the new 'config' files etc. But again, how do I know which are the right ones, and which are the wrong. This is why I would like to PURGE and RE_INSTALL (whatever) package to make sure. But what packages(s), and can I do that. Or will purging them shaft something else in the process. > (It shouldn't ask if you hadn't changed the files, but due to bugs > it does sometimes.) Some nice guy on #debian/IRC (remco I think) got me to do a checksum on /etc/terminfo/v/vt100 yesterday, and he say the result was the same as his.. and his work??? Out of interest, if you say N to overwriting an exisiting file when upgrading, doesn't it create a whatever.dpkg-dist file in the same directory! So a 'find /* -name *.dpkg-dist' would soon find anything you might have hosed by saying N? I do NOT have such things as "vt100.dpkg-dist" in the /etc/terminfo directories. But I do have a few for such things as squid, motd etc.. Which wouldn't make any difference to this ! Cheers -- Nidge Jones
