From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: Fire up mc in either Gnome or Console the following error is at the bottom of the mc screen" *** err [lib/liblow.c(268)]: strncmp/isdigit/consolename failed The noticed results are (but may not be related) No mouse functions in mc and keypad chars are incorrect. This occured after a fresh install of FC3t1 and doing the first available updates. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start mc in a Gnome or Konsole window. 2. 3. Actual Results: Get *** err [lib/liblow.c(268)]: strncmp/isdigit/consolename failed error every time. Expected Results: No error. Additional info:
Created attachment 102753 [details] strace output from strace mc >selected file.txt I did not notice this error previous to discussions on the test list. I see the same arror which Robert describes. This error showed in both a tty terminal and within a gnome-terminal. Great catch Robert!
*** Bug 137284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***