On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:10:35PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> * Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-09 23:59:43 CEST]:
> > Thomas Dickey, le Wed 08 Oct 2008 20:00:32 -0400, a écrit :
> > > With the latest update, ncurses won't try to use gpm if $TERM doesn't
> > > contain "linux", unless it's overridden (with a new environment variable).
> > 
> > Ah, indeed.  Rhonda, Zito or Simon, could you check whether upgrading
> > your libncurses5 and libncursesw5 to 5.6+20081004-1 fixes the bug?  I
> > think that should fix it for the usual cases.
> 
>  These packages are currently installed:
> 
> w3m 0.5.2-2+b1, Versions of packages w3m depends on:

I already commented on w3m.  It's using names from ncurses without actually
using the ncurses library, to fool gpm into working by calling w3m's code.

See

  http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#using_gpm_lib

> ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libgc1c2               1:6.8-1.1         conservative garbage collector 
> for
> ii  libgpm2                1.20.4-2          General Purpose Mouse - shared 
> lib
> ii  libncurses5            5.6+20081004-1    shared libraries for terminal 
> hand
> ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-13         SSL shared libraries
> ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
> 
>  Doesn't solve the issue, unfortunately. I've upgraded all my ncurses
> packages, after that started gpm and did run and quit
> 'w3m http://nm.debian.org/' exactly seven times (reproducible), likewise
> with pdmenu:

...Of the programs mentioned, ncurses updates should only affect aptitude.
pdmenu does not appear to rely on ncurses (see my first reply).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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