FS#11156 - [mc] messes up keyboard when used on console

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Michael Towers (gradgrind) - Saturday, 09 August 2008, 08:02 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 08:05 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
See below.

Additional info:
* package version(s): 4.6.1-5


Steps to reproduce:

Log into console (only tested as root)
Run mc
You will probably notice that not all key presses are recognized (some not at all, others only with double presses).


I recompiled the old mc-utf8 package and this does not suffer from this malady. But I'm afraid I don't have time to investigate further.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 08:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Saturday, 09 August 2008, 11:16 GMT
I could not notice such a behavior. Here all Shortcuts work for root (also with LANG=C).
Could you give a example what keystrokes you mean, something what you could reproduce?
Comment by Michael Towers (gradgrind) - Saturday, 09 August 2008, 16:51 GMT
I think I was a bit hasty in assigning the problem to mc. It seems to be a bit intermittent and possibly has something to do with starting slim from inittab, because I haven't (yet) been able to reproduce it when using gdm. Its main manifestation is the need to type a character twice to get it to appear.
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 21:28 GMT
What's the status of this issue?
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 21:17 GMT
mc is now continuing development in http://midnight-commander.org/ Please file a bug report upstream
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 08:04 GMT
mc works fine here (I'm using gdm though, not sure how it can be related to slim).
Please report upstream, they're doing lots of fixing these days.
@Aaron: please update to 4.6.2 + utf8 patch provided on the site (also 4.6.2.1 may be released soon)

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