Bug 150799

Summary:	yast2-ncurses doesn't handle spawning of interactive programs
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Peter Poeml <poeml>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Martin Vidner <mvidner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	kkaempf, ma, mc, mlazar, suse-beta
Version:	Beta 1
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Description Peter Poeml 2006-02-14 14:23:32 UTC

Klaus reports that yast2 (in ncurses mode) is not able to spawn an
interactive program properly (like lynx or w3m). I don't know which
exact issue he observed but I assume that the terminal is messed up. 
(Klaus, can you fill in details / how-to-reproduce? Thanks)

This feature is needed to handle interactive registration during
installation with the planned new registration procedure of 10.1/sles10.

FYI, there was a former bug which dealt with ncurses screen redrawal,
which might be related: bug 46315.

Comment 1 Stanislav Visnovsky 2006-02-14 14:44:29 UTC

I'm afraid nobody from YaST is able to fix this. Ask Werner or other ncurses guru.

Comment 3 Klaus Kämpf 2006-02-27 11:00:23 UTC

Edith, please assign to who's tasked to integrated lynx/w3m

Comment 4 Stanislav Visnovsky 2006-02-27 11:17:41 UTC

'screen' works nicely.

Comment 5 Edith Parzefall 2006-03-06 13:44:18 UTC

Daniel, please close bug, as soon as ncurses registration is tested.

Comment 6 J. Daniel Schmidt 2006-03-07 10:26:57 UTC

For native mode of YaST this is true.
But launching it without threading solves the problem (according to stano).

We thinkt about launching the ncurses YaST without threads.

Comment 7 J. Daniel Schmidt 2006-03-10 12:23:16 UTC

stano: could you make nacurses start without threads always!?

Comment 8 Stanislav Visnovsky 2006-03-10 12:29:08 UTC

We need to adapt /sbin/yast2 and YaST2.call to add --nothreads for ncurses as a server parameter.

Comment 9 Martin Vidner 2006-03-10 17:11:12 UTC

Added to /sbin/yast{,2} in yast2-2.13.34 and YaST2.call in yast2-installation-2.13.31.