Bug 37191

Summary:	logged out after entering TERM=scoansi....
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	maikcat
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	ras
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Description maikcat 2001-04-23 11:14:08 UTC

when i enter TERM=scoansi im logged out!?! (logged on as root)
my system:
asus a7v
amd thunderbird 1000Mhz
256mb ram
Rh linux 7.1

also tested on ibm gl300 same result....

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-03 15:07:46 UTC

Verified... Ncurses falls over FZ\E[^ for some reason. debugging.

Comment 2 Bob Rasmussen 2001-06-15 22:20:26 UTC

It would appear that the caret needs a backslash in front of it, because caret 
ordinarily means control-something, based on the next character, such as "^a" 
for control-A. But nothing follows it.

So an immediate fix would be to patch the termcap file to "FZ=\E[\^".

A further fix would be to fix the ncurses routine so it wouldn't blow up on 
this situation.

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-07-20 12:04:24 UTC

Workaround added in termcap-11.0.1-10