On Sun, 3 May 2026, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Source: screen > Version: 5.0.1-1.1 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] > User: [email protected] > Usertags: m68k > User: [email protected] > Usertags: powerpc ppc64 > User: [email protected] > Usertags: s390x > User: [email protected] > Usertags: sparc64 > > Hi, > > since the latest update, screen no longer works on big-endian systems. > > Tested on both ppc64 and sparc64, running "screen bash" will start bash > inside a screen, but it's no longer possible to interact with the shell, > i.e. typing commands. > > Downgrading screen to the last 4.x release, fixes the problem immediately.
Strange, on Gentoo I have screen 5.0.1 on both m68k and PowerPC without this problem. -- kolla
