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bug #59107: in the Debian installer, there is no cursor at most prompts

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Sun 13 Sep 2020 08:00:15 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Wont Fix
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed

Tue 15 Sep 2020 09:03:02 AM UTC, comment #2: 

If no easy workaround is found, there is no way to fix this.  All support for Slang will be removed after the next release.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sun 13 Sep 2020 10:01:55 AM UTC, comment #1: 

*To reproduce, boot into...

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sun 13 Sep 2020 08:00:15 AM UTC, original submission:  

To reproduce, but into the Net installer from Debian (https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/).  Choose the second item in the boot menu: "Installer".  Run through the first steps until a "Go back" button appears.  Choose that, and then in the main menu choose the second item from the bottom: "Execute a shell".  Then run 'nano /etc/cde*'.

Now type ^W.  See that there is no cursor.  Type ^W again (an invalid keystroke in the Search menu).  The cursor appears.  Type ^C ^R.  See that there is no cursor.  Type ^R again.  The cursor appears.  Type ^C ^O.  There is no cursor.  Type ^O.  The cursor appears.

Sigh...  How come no one ever saw that nano does not work right in the Debian installer?  Does nobody use nano in this installer?  Or do they not care?  Or do they simply not notice, being too focussed on editing something?

When I build a tiny nano with ncurses, copy it over into the installer image, and also copy the /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so* stuff, then the copied nano runs fine: it shows a cursor at the prompts, and does not hide the cursor when typing an unbound key or anything else that produces a message on the status bar (see bug #59091).

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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    2020-09-15 bens StatusNone Wont Fix

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