Bug 902281 - mc console display is garbled (line drawing characters are not shown correctly)
Summary: mc console display is garbled (line drawing characters are not shown correctly)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mc
Version: 19
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Phil Knirsch
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-21 10:02 UTC by Yury V. Zaytsev
Modified: 2015-03-05 01:21 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-02-17 14:41:30 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


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Garbled screen (57.19 KB, image/png)
2013-01-21 10:03 UTC, Yury V. Zaytsev
no flags Details

Description Yury V. Zaytsev 2013-01-21 10:02:49 UTC
Description of problem:

Upon fresh installation of the newly released FC18 inside a KVM/QEMU virtual machine, when I start mc, the screen is completely garbled.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

mc-4.8.6-2.fc18.i386

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FC18
2. Install mc
3. Run mc in console

Actual results:

See attached screenshot.

Expected results:

It used to work out of the box in FC1{5,6,7}

Comment 1 Yury V. Zaytsev 2013-01-21 10:03:37 UTC
Created attachment 684188 [details]
Garbled screen

Comment 2 Yury V. Zaytsev 2013-01-23 14:01:45 UTC
Note, that this only affects the console, e.g. if mc is started from inside a terminal emulator, everything is working just fine.

Comment 3 Yury V. Zaytsev 2013-02-19 18:31:33 UTC
Still a problem with 4.8.7-1.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2013-12-21 10:38:58 UTC
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Comment 6 Yury V. Zaytsev 2013-12-21 18:50:48 UTC
It definitely does affect Fedora 19, didn't try Fedora 20 yet.

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2015-01-09 17:35:58 UTC
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Comment 8 Justin Zygmont 2015-02-08 09:52:17 UTC
Can you confirm if this is working now?  I am using F-21 and mc works fine from the console.  

But not from an X-term:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190465

Comment 9 Fedora End Of Life 2015-02-17 14:41:30 UTC
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