nano arrow key issues

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anonybosh · Post by **anonybosh** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:48 pm

So I've noticed since updating my system yesterday that nano now generates the letters A, B, C, and D when the Up, Down, Right and Left (respectively) arrow keys are pressed. An '[ Unknown Command ]' notice is generated at the bottom menu line as well.

Also their output seems to be somewhat random...it only seems to happen when the key(s) are held down for a little bit (1-2sec), and then the rate at which the characters are output varies widely.

This system does not have X running, and my usage is strictly over SSH using putty on a windows system.

It only seems to occur for my user account (not a problem for root), and this anomaly does NOT happen in the regular terminal (as the user or root). My user account does NOT have a nanorc file in the home directory either.

Needless to say, this is kind of annoying having those letters 'scatterously' pooped out in any documents I'm editing.

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# emerge nano -p

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] app-editors/nano-2.2.4  USE="justify ncurses nls spell unicode -debug -minimal -slang" 1,494 kB

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# emerge --info

Portage 2.1.8.3 (hardened/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-hardened-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.34-hardened-r6-x86_64-Dual_Core_AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_165-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:45:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
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ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
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APACHE2_MPMS="prefork"
ARCH="amd64"
ASFLAGS_x86="--32"
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CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
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CVS_RSH="ssh"
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DISTCC_VERBOSE=""
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EDITOR="/bin/nano"
ELIBC="glibc"
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EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10"
EPREFIX=""
EROOT="/"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv"
FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 15 --limit-rate=100k ${URI} -O ${DISTDIR}/${FILE}"
GCC_SPECS=""
GDK_USE_XFT="1"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/"
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HOME="/root"
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MULTILIB_STRICT_EXEMPT="(perl5|gcc|gcc-lib|binutils|eclipse-3|debug|portage)"
NETBEANS="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml"
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OPENGL_PROFILE="xorg-x11"
PAGER="/usr/bin/less"
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.4"
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ShadowCat8 · Post by **ShadowCat8** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:05 pm

Hmmm....

Well, it *sounds* like somehow either your keyboard mapping and/or your terminal settings got messed up somewhere.

As an initial note, something that caught my eye on your 'emerge --info' was the following:

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INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"

You said that you aren't running an X server on this box, so:

Is x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev really necessary on your box?
If it *is* necessary, then is "keyboard mouse" necessary? IIRC, it was part of the last major upgrade with HAL and dbus to remove those from the INPUT_DEVICES line.

HTH. Let us know.

anonybosh · Post by **anonybosh** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:30 pm

Ok, that's interesting.
I never explicitly defined those input devices anywhere (greped all of /etc). They are defined in the profile make.defaults file though (I don't think that I changed it, but I could be wrong).
On the flip side, though this box doesn't use X, systems that network boot off of it do (they use this boxes' FS as a shared filesystem so only one system update affects everyone).
A run at emerging nano with an empty tree doesn't pull in anything that uses the INPUT_DEVICES variable, or at least that prints this fact out...

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# emerge -p -e nano|grep -i input_dev
#