ncurses: terminfo in wrong place

[chrol]

Utilities like top and prstat rely on setupterm() call which uses terminfo and /etc/termcap to configure proper terminal settings

in ncp2b2 this is not working properly.

Test: run prstat via ssh from e.g. macosx terminal and notice error message (failed to load terminal info)

I tried moving files from /lib/amd64/terminfo to /usr/lib/terminfo and it cleared up the problem for me

I don't know if terminfo should be replicated to so many places (apt-file find xterm-color) and if it should be arch dependant?

[anilg (anil-verve)]

I tried this on my VMware instance of beta2 and was unable to reproduce (tried both gnome-terminal and xterm on the host). prstat runs fine (and top is a link to prstat). Can you from any linux box if you have one, and report if the issue is seen there as well?

[anilg (anil-verve)]

My VM was 32 bit, so this can be a 64 bit issue.

[Cuong Le (cuonglb)]

Me too. I'm using Parallel Desktop 32bits for Mac.

I try Nexenta Core Beta 2 in my VirtualBox (OSE) in Debian and worked fine
but very slowly when booting.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:47 PM, anilg <email address hidden> wrote:

> My VM was 32 bit, so this can be a 64 bit issue.
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> ncurses: terminfo in wrong place
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335812
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[Tim Spriggs (tim-tajinc)]

The important test here isn't the terminal you are coming from so much as the TERM environment variable. OSX Terminal defaults to xterm-color which is not recognized as originally stated.

root@fiji:/usr/lib# prstat
prstat: failed to load terminal info, defaulting to -c option
   PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
...

Other instances of this problem can be seen with /usr/bin/vi (but not /usr/bin/vim) or other applications that compile against libcurses.so.1 which is provided by sunwcslr:

# dpkg-query -S /lib/libcurses.so.1
sunwcslr: /lib/libcurses.so.1

In order to work around the problem the sun curses terminfo needs to know about xterm-color (which it doesn't know about by default) but can be augmented using ncurses xterm-color definition:

root@fiji:/usr/share/lib/terminfo/x# ln -s /lib/terminfo/x/xterm-color

Additionally, the /lib/amd64/terminfo directory is a by-product of the 32/64 build. It is redundant and should be cleaned up.

[Tim Spriggs (tim-tajinc)]

This has been fixed and released into hardy-unstable. Please test and let me know if the problem is fixed for you.

[chrol (christian-olrog)]

Tested and works on dist-upgraded ncp2b2 today

thank you.