Re: sysinst screen clear failures

On 29/07/2007, at 15:59, David Laight wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:13:33PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While installing NetBSD on a shark machine, I've found that sysinst
>> fails to clear the screen on multiple situations.  (I doubt this is
>> specific to shark though.)  One of this is as follows:
>>
>> 1. Select "Install NetBSD to hard disk"
>> 2. Select "Yes"
>> 3. Press enter.
>> 4. Select "Full installation"
>>
>> At this point, the screen displays the "layout" menu but below the
>> introductory text (and overlapped with the menu itself), the text
>> from the previous menu (distset) appears twice in the background.
>
> Sounds like a curses bug to me ...

Probably.  I'm now trying to disable wcurses and see if that helps.

> Or possibly a bug in your terminal emulator.

I've also seen breakage in i386, so seems more a curses bug.  (See  
#36560, have been able to reproduce it myself many times, and is now  
also happening in shark too.)

(Furthermore I don't remember this behavior when I installed NetBSD  
on a shark back in March or so.)

> The above looks like a 'normal' sequence, so has worked in the past!

Yep, that's why it seemed strange.  Just wanted to make sure that  
sysinst wasn't missing some clear call at some point.

Kind regards,

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <[email protected]>