On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:08:49PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 2/14/12 4:20 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 03:35:01PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > >>On 2/14/12 10:38 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>>On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Julian Elischer<[email protected]> > >>>wrote: > >>>>Has anyone else seen a problem with top -H -S? > >>>> > >>>>after a short while the screen gets more and more corrupted.. > >>>> > >>>>hitting ^L or turning off S& H modes helps .. for a while. > >>>> > >>>>If this is a known fixed problem, let me know but I need to co-ordinate > >>>>with > >>>>others > >>>>to upgrade the machine in question. > >>>Not seeing it here on 9-stable. Could it be a display issue? I am > >>>using gnome-terminal with TERM defined as 'xterm'. > >>yeah I'm on a mac with iterm, but running through 'screen' . > >> > >>it's never been a problem before.. just since we upgraded to 9-stable. > >If you remove GNU screen from the picture does the problem go away? If > >so, I'm not surprised. :-) > > > >Make sure that when you're using GNU screen, that all shells launched > >"under/within" screen have TERM=screen. If they don't, then this is > >almost certainly the problem -- GNU screen "translates" between terminal > >types, meaning it translates its own terminal type ("screen") into > >whatever TERM is currently attached ("xterm", "iterm", whatever). See > >the last 4 paragraphs of my post here to understand what exactly GNU > >screen is doing: > > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-June/063052.html > > > >So, in general, make sure your dotfiles and so on don't mess about with > >the $TERM environment variable and you should generally be okay. > it seems to have stopped doing it for no apparent reason > > will keep an eye on it. and save this email away for when it does it > again. > > >If within GNU screen TERM=screen and you see the problem, but outside of > >screen you use TERM=xterm (or something else) but don't see the problem, > >then I would almost certainly blame GNU screen. If you're looking for > >something that simply keeps a terminal running in the background, try > >nohup or tmux. > > > >Alternately, possibly someone added a "screen" entry to /etc/termcap on > >RELENG_9? I don't use 9 so I have no way to confirm this, but on 8 > >there is no such entry. > > SC|screen|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\
Sorry, I'm quite wrong here on the last point. Somehow my manual search in vi did not come up with anything in /etc/termcap for screen, yet there is absolutely a definition for it in RELENG_8. PEBKAC. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
