Bug 37191 - logged out after entering TERM=scoansi....
Summary: logged out after entering TERM=scoansi....
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ncurses
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-04-23 11:14 UTC by maikcat
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-07-20 12:04:28 UTC
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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
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