On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 04:36:07AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: libncursesw6
> Version: 6.4+20231007-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> With libncursesw6 6.4+20231007-1, I get the following issue:
> 
> $ screen -dRR mutt /usr/bin/mutt
> [screen is terminating]
> 
> after a few seconds (or immediately "[screen is terminating]" when
> I hit a key). When rebuilding Mutt with debug support, this shows
> that Mutt is actually running, but with no output, and I don't know
> why it terminates.
> 
> Same issue with
> 
>   screen -dRR mutt sh -c "true; /usr/bin/mutt"
> 
> but
> 
>   screen -dRR mutt sh -c "sleep 1; /usr/bin/mutt"
> 
> appears to work. Some kind of race condition?
> 
> With
> 
>   /usr/bin/screen -dRR mutt strace -f -o str.out -s 256 /usr/bin/mutt
...
> Downgrading the ncurses packages to 6.4+20230625-2 makes this problem
> disappear.

hmm - at least it's not likely the tiparm fixes from April.

But in a quick check to "upgrade", my sources.list to investigate this,
I get stopped by the "improvements".  It might help if you posted the
corresponding sources.list (or are you using the separate gpg stuff?).
 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 
> 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
> 'experimental')
> merged-usr: no
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
> TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages libncursesw6 depends on:
> ii  libc6      2.37-12
> ii  libtinfo6  6.4+20231007-1
> 
> Versions of packages libncursesw6 recommends:
> ii  libgpm2  1.20.7-10+b1
> 
> libncursesw6 suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> -- 
> Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
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> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
> 

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