On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 09:31:20PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am using Debian Testing on a IBM Thinkpad A21e. After installing the > package perl-doc, I find that many curses applications seem to behave > very strangely some times. For exmaple, emacs (I use emacs -nw which > is text-based curses mode), nano, less, w3m, and countless others. I > have removed perl-doc after I noticed this.
I haven't seen anything weird having perl-doc installed. Did anything else change around the time you started noticing this? > Now, whenever I enter a password in the terminal (generally after > SSH), launching the program, causes strange things to happen, with > input causing the program to print messages and scroll, and, in > general, misbehave. This happens on all terminals which were created > after the SSH (I use gnome-terminal, not the virtual terminal). The > old ones work fine. What exactly do the messages say? And what do you mean do misbehave? It sounds like more a ssh or gnome-terminal issue. Have you tried at a virtual terminal? Do similar things happen there? -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ma Bell is a mean mother! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]