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RedHat 5.1 was installed on a PentiumII w/ 128 MB RAM. LinuxConf worked great from the console, and the edges of the dialogs and buttons looked good. A brand new 6.1 boonet.img bootdisk was created and used to perform an FTP upgrade of the 5.1 install to RH 6.1. After booting to 6.1 after the upgrade, linuxconf displayed the ASCII codes for extended ASCII symbols instead of the line art that is used to render button and dialog edges, rendering the interface largely useless. Linuxconf still works fine from within X where the GUI doesn't use ASCII symbols. 'rpm -V linuxconf' reveals that the package is installed correctly (no dependencies missing).
What are the contents of the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file?
There doesn't seem to be an /etc/sysconfig/i18n file on my machine. A quick 'locate i18n' reveals a /usr/share/i18n directory full of stuff, and a few other files, but nothing solely named i18n. I discovered recently that running sndconfig, which on the console exhibits the same garbage chars as linuxconf, will not have the errors when run from X. In other words, in an Eterm in Gnome, sndconfig will render correctly, but when run from the console it will look like hell. I'm sure the same could be said for linuxconf, except that linuxconf uses an X based gui when run in a terminal window under X, not the character based gui.
OK, can you give me the output of echo $TERM echo $LANG echo $LINGUAS env | grep LC rpm -V ncurses
The output of the requested commands when run at the console just after logging in as either myself or as root is as follows: ----------OUTPUT HERE---------- # echo $TERM linux # echo $LANG # echo $LINGUAS # env | grep LC # rpm -V ncurses ----------END OUTPUT ---------- I ran it in X also, from an Eterm, just to see what's different there and got this: ----------OUTPUT HERE---------- # echo $TERM xterm # echo $LANG # echo $LINGUAS # env | grep LC # rpm -V ncurses ----------END OUTPUT ---------- Note that $LANG and $LINGUAS are outputting blank lines, while the last two commands have no output.
Sigh. How about the output of cat /etc/conf.linuxconf
The output of `cat /etc/conf.linuxconf` is: ---------OUTPUT--------- [base] LINUXCONF.distribution redhat notice.10-welcome.help 894567546 module.list 1 redhatppp module.list 1 modemconf module.list 1 treemenu module.list 1 inittab module.list 1 motd module.list 1 mailconf module.list 1 apache module.list 1 samba [netclient] DNSCONF.dnsneeded 1 [noarch] linuxconf.lastlang ---------END OUTPUT--------- There is also an /etc/conf.linuxconf.rpmnew, but it only has this in it: ---------OUTPUT--------- LINUXCONF.distribution redhat ---------END OUTPUT---------
Is gecko installed? If so, remove it. (rpm -e gecko)
gecko is not installed. I believe that it was after my upgrade to 6.1, but I already removed it because of a technical support document I read on this site that indicated it might be related to this problem. ----------OUTPUT HERE----------- # rpm -q gecko package gecko is not installed # rpm -qa | grep -i gecko # locate gecko # rpm -e gecko error: package gecko is not installed ----------END OUTPUT------------
Can you do strace -o /tmp/strace.lc /bin/linuxconf And immediately quit out of linuxconf? Rather than post that large output file here, mail it to me: gzip -9 /tmp/strace.lc uuencode /tmp/strace.lc.gz strace.lc.gz | \ mail -s 'bug 6509 strace output' johnsonm@redhat.com
Thanks for the strace output. Here's your bug: open("/root/.terminfo/l/linux", O_RDONLY) = 15 read(15, "\32\1\36\0\35\0\20\0}\1m\2", 12) = 12 I don't know why you have a /root/.terminfo/ there, but it's buggy somehow. I presume that you have the $TERMINFO environment variable set? You'll either have to get rid of that environment variable, or perhaps get rid of the directory (rm -rf /root/.terminfo) or fix the terminfo files in your directory. I say "files" since x/xterm is clearly also broken.
Indeed. Removing /root/.terminfo does solve the problem. I don't know why it was there. There was no $TERMINFO variable set. Problem solved. Thanks.