Bug 150799 - yast2-ncurses doesn't handle spawning of interactive programs
Summary: yast2-ncurses doesn't handle spawning of interactive programs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Critical (vote)
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Assignee: Martin Vidner
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-02-14 14:23 UTC by Peter Poeml
Modified: 2006-03-10 17:11 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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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.