On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I >>>> reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing. >>>> If I start mc in the screen nothings happen. I can see the cursos is >>>> stop before the last line and waiting... >>>> Generally first time the mc is start and I can work with. But, random >>>> long time later the mc is start doing this stupid behavior what I >>>> wrote upper. This thing is independent what I did. Last time is >>>> started after I use vim to edit an file. Yesterday started after I >>>> write in mc's command line 'df -h' and hit Enter. >>> >>> This is a very old post, but I want to say I am experiencing the same >>> problems with screen and mc (even after I initially replied saying I >>> didn't have it :). Did you ever find a solution? >>> >> >> I dunno if my problem is the same as yours, but it may not be just mc. >> screen has been crapping out on me lately, and also randomly, like >> described above, when I use some of the shell scripts that I wrote. It >> only happens with interactive scripts that display a menu using >> 'dev-util/dialog'. Most of the time it works, sometimes it doesn't: >> after the previous dialog clears the screen, screen just sits there >> blinking and not loading the next one. >> >> I'd be interested in a solution too, if there is one. > > If you start screen, then do "export TERM=xterm", does that fix the issues?
So far that seems to fix it for me! But it's a very random and non-reproducible error so only time will tell. mc froze on startup for me just now (with TERM=screen) 5 times in a row; set TERM=xterm and mc started without problem 5 times in a row. So that's a good sign, I think. Thanks!
