mc freezes system [SOLVED]

geoffers · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

When using mc in a vt it causes the system to lock up solidly after giving any command on the command line. The last thing shown on the screen is "Press any key". This happens for any user. It does not happen when using mc in an xterm on the KDE desktop.

Nobody else seems to have reported this behaviour, any clues anyone?

hds · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject:

just a guess (no lockups here) but emerge mc using -X -gpm and see if problem persists.
OTOH you could post your USEflags.
the output of "emerge info" might stop us guessing what system you run

geoffers · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

No luck with -X -gpm, it still locks up. Is there an alternative to mc for console use?

Anyway here is the output of emerge info:

System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-kraxel1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 26 2005, 19:19:50)]
dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk"
LANG="en_GB@euro"
LC_ALL="en_GB"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 alsa apache2 apm arts atm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg jpg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

geoffers · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

I added the following USE flags to my make.conf:

gpm X nls slang unicode

and re-merged mc. Now all is well. Dunno which one fixed the freeze.