Hi,
I am not really sure if this a problem with LFS or BLFS so I thought I'd
drop this one into this list:
I'm playing around with a newly built LFS (SVN 20060516) and am noticing
some weird things with the keyboard/screen...
During boot-up, as it gets to setting up the network interface using
dhcp the cursor stays on that line of the messages even when the login
prompt appears several lines below it (After going through the rest of
my init.d scripts). Login works, but the flashing cursor remains higher
up the screen...
Once logged in, entering ViM from the console makes the cursor disappear
altogether! You can still edit but just can't see where the cursor is.
It's a good guessing game but not very productive :-)
I have built quite a bit of BLFS on top using another recent SVN book
and sometimes, in xterm, the bash interface seems to get stuck and
continuously scrolls as though someone is holding down the enter key and
it is just repeating... Simply hitting enter once stops this.
Occasionally xterm also stops spewing out [compiler messages for
example] as though someone has hit scroll-lock or ctl-s. Again a single
return starts things again...
Now then, the main difference between this and my previous builds (of
which there have been many and none have exhibited these problems) apart
from the obvious software revision changes is UTF-8.
I have set in my i18n.sh
LANG="en_GB.utf8"
I was looking on the net for something else and found a blog where
someone said that the output of locale -a displaying xx_ZZ.utf8 is a BUG
and you should enter LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
I have tried both ways and neither made any difference.
I am going to switch back to 8859-1 shortly and see if that resolves the
issue, but does anyone have any other thoughts if this is not the culprit?
Thanks and sorry for the rambling.
Al
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