Bug#412168: debian-installer: Rescue mode: terminal 'bterm' doesn't play nice with some apps in rescue shell
reassign 412168 di-utils
thanks
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 07:44:20AM +0100, Alain Kalker wrote:
> After booting into rescue mode and starting a shell in my root
> partition from the menu, the grub shell and some other
> tools messed up my screen, probably because the terminal type 'bterm'
> wasn't fully supported.
> 'man' (using 'more' as pager, I think) complained about some terminal
> functions probably not working correctly, while the grub shell overwrote
> much of its own output, making it mostly unusable.
We should be able to fix this now that cdebconf-newt-terminal exists and
does most of the work necessary to provide the chroot with a working
terminfo file for bterm. I'm reassigning this over to di-utils, which
needs to make use of that new plugin in order to fix this bug.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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