Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > A related issue, and the one triggering this bug report in the first > place, is that the debconf version in Sarge is unable to use the C > locale with the linux terminal. This can be tested in the linux > console, using the following commands: > > LANG=C TERM=linux dpkg-reconfigure debconf > > This will show the dialog boxes without border lines. When using > vt100 terminal instead, the dialog boxes look just fine. > > LANG=C TERM=vt100 dpkg-reconfigure debconf > > This suggests that there is a problem with the dialog frontend and the > linux console terminal type.
I can reproduce this by doing simply: unset LANG whiptail --yesno foo 20 20 At the linux console. Reassign to whiptail? -- see shy jo
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