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Bug 74911 - gdm text dialogs are broken
Summary: gdm text dialogs are broken
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ncurses
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Jay Turner
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 74861 78697 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 79579 CambridgeTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-02 18:50 UTC by Alan Cox
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:00 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-08-14 09:39:12 UTC
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Description Alan Cox 2002-10-02 18:50:51 UTC 
On the EPIA box after installing with no mouse it decided to go to run level 5
(doh - installer bug) however gdm did try to cope. Unfortunately the dialog it
stuck up in text mode was basically blank with random weird letters in the
actual yes/no/whatever boxes.

Video Card: Trident Cyberblade
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-12-20 00:24:21 UTC 
I'm assuming the text dialog is an upstream thing, if it was
redhat-config-xfree86 we should probably move this bug to r-c-x
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-12-20 00:27:38 UTC 
*** Bug 74861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Alan Cox 2002-12-20 00:30:18 UTC 
Sorry to disagree. It doesn't seem to happen on the same setup with Debian. I
don't know if its kudzu gone wonky, the font copying bug (ie tty8 hasnt got
the fonts set up, or its gdm triggered).

Alan
Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-13 02:21:59 UTC 
Filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103257
but I didn't actually check if upstream contains its own text dialog
or that's just Xconfigurator.
Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2003-01-16 21:19:55 UTC 
Taking gdm target/blockers.
Comment 6 Owen Taylor 2003-01-16 22:49:50 UTC 
GDM is just running 'dialog' in this case; I'd guess this is dialog
not working correctly on the console in UTF-8 mode.
Comment 7 Harald Hoyer 2003-01-29 15:36:03 UTC 
dialog uses ncurses, so reassigning to ncurses..
btw, tty is not configured to output UTF-8
Comment 8 Owen Taylor 2003-01-29 17:33:18 UTC 
You reassigned to gdm, not to ncurses... don't really understand the
comment about the tty.
Comment 9 Harald Hoyer 2003-01-29 17:39:48 UTC 
well, the tty the dialog is running on is not switched in utf-8 mode
see /bin/unicode_start
Comment 10 Eido Inoue 2003-02-03 22:42:25 UTC 
please test against the ncurses-5.3-3 package
Comment 11 Eido Inoue 2003-02-03 22:44:26 UTC 
*** Bug 78697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Alan Cox 2003-02-04 15:31:44 UTC 
Tested: The main text area is readable, the buttons are garbage as are the borders.
Comment 13 Jay Turner 2003-02-06 13:09:22 UTC 
Pushing this back to assigned as Alan is still seeing some issues.
Comment 14 Alan Cox 2003-08-14 09:39:12 UTC 
Seems to be resolved as of the RHLP beta 1
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