Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common
On 2006-02-27 11:43:44 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2006-02-27 10:57:56 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > BTW, when I wanted to fix the group name (gid) with
> > > "dpkg-reconfigure tex-common", the BackSpace key (generating ^?)
> > > didn't work to erase the value. I was connected via ssh. I suppose
> > > this is a bug too.
> >
> > This is most probably not a bug but a misconfiguration of your terminal
> > settings.
>
> This is strange because the erase stty setting matched the BackSpace
> key, and the key was working in the shells. I'll try to look at the
> problem more closely tonight.
I've found the problem. The stty settings are not used by whiptail,
but the terminfos. Unfortunately the terminal I'm using doesn't have
its own terminfo data, and worse, one can set only a limited number
of TERM values, so that I'm using xterm-color and modified terminfo
data in my $HOME. When I su root, these modified data are no longer
used, and the backspace in the standard xterm-color is ^H, not ^?.
I just need to set the TERMINFO environment variable...
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