Debian bug report logs - #841 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#841: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal: console." Reply-To: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 16:33:04 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 16:33:04 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 042816255624098; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 16:25:57 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0s4sln-00063bC; Fri, 28 Apr 95 09:19 PDT Received: from motgate.mot.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA24895 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 28 Apr 1995 09:19:49 -0700 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.6) with ESMTP id LAA13151 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:19:49 -0500 Received: from mdd.comm.mot.com (mdisea.mdd.comm.mot.com [138.242.64.201]) by pobox.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.6) with SMTP id LAA01158 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:19:47 -0500 Received: from bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com by mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21802; Fri, 28 Apr 95 09:19:46 PDT Received: by bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09594; Fri, 28 Apr 95 09:19:42 PDT Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 09:19:42 PDT From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) Message-Id: <9504281619.AA09594@bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com> To: debian-bugs@pixar.com PACKAGE: dpkg VERSION: 0.93r4 dselect won't start up. It complains of "error opening terminal", nomatter what I set TERM to. Other programs which use /etc/termcap (e.g., git) work OK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) Subject: Bug#841: Acknowledgement (was: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal: console.") In-Reply-To: <9504281619.AA09594@bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com> References: <9504281619.AA09594@bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#841" or "Re: Bug#841" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#841: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal: console." Reply-To: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 23:48:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 23:48:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 042823411618831; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 23:41:16 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0s4zdm-0005zNC; Fri, 28 Apr 95 16:40 PDT Received: from mongo.pixar.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA05932 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 28 Apr 1995 16:40:04 -0700 Received: by mongo.pixar.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0s4zdi-0005zNC; Fri, 28 Apr 95 16:40 PDT Message-Id: Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 16:40 PDT From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) To: debian-bugs@pixar.com, mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) Install ncurses-runtime. This will be fixed in the next base. -- Attention Ham Radio Operators: For information on "Linux for Hams", read the World Wide Web page http://www.rahul.net/perens/LinuxForHams ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) Subject: Bug#841: Info received (was Bug#841: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal: console.") In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#841" or "Re: Bug#841" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#841: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal: console." Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 15:03:05 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 15:03:05 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 042914582313415; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 14:58:23 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0s5DxA-0005OeA; Sat, 29 Apr 95 07:57 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA17818 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sat, 29 Apr 1995 07:56:56 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0s5DwR-000BznA; Sat, 29 Apr 95 15:56 BST Received: by chiark id m0s5Diz-0000Y7A (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.30); Sat, 29 Apr 95 15:42 BST Message-Id: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 15:42 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address Precedence: air-mail Bill Mitchell writes: > PACKAGE: dpkg > VERSION: 0.93r4 > > dselect won't start up. It complains of "error opening terminal", > nomatter what I set TERM to. Other programs which use /etc/termcap > (e.g., git) work OK. Bruce, can that message be improved, perhaps to mention that it's trying to use terminfo ? Since it's a Debian ncurses package you could even say to install the `ncurses-runtime' package. Something like: Terminal type `bbc-phx' is not defined in the terminfo database. Please (re)set your TERM variable, or install terminfo data for this terminal. Most terminfos can be found in the `ncurses-runtime' package. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#841: Info received (was Bug#841: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal: console.") In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#841" or "Re: Bug#841" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From thor.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Fri Sep 8 10:38:38 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sr7Nu-000C17C; Fri, 8 Sep 95 10:38 PDT Received: from hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA04322 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:38:23 -0700 Received: by hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #77) id m0sr7LD-000JfFC; Fri, 8 Sep 95 18:35 BST Message-Id: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 95 18:35 BST From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com Subject: Not bugs in the dpkg package, and dselect=>dpkg reassign 1278 libc? NIS? reassign 927 ncurses? reassign 841 ncurses reassign 1290 man reassign 962 dselect ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov