* Re: [gentoo-user] Possible needed lib missing?
@ 2008-01-04 18:30 99% ` Mick
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From: Mick @ 2008-01-04 18:30 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Thursday 27 December 2007, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> I'm building up a minimal install a bit at a time... Or I should say
> building down. It was a full install at one point.
>
> I'm getting strange behavior in vim when accessing the minimal machine
> thru ssh from another gentoo box.
>
> When using vims search tool on the remote (/) normally you can scroll
> thru previous search strings with up/down arrow. But I'm getting <up>
> printed literally instead when I press up/down to access a previous
> search.
>
> It seems a safe bet it has to do with paring down the install since it
> worked normally previously.
>
> I've edited down the world list, changed a number of USE flags,
> changed the profile to hardened/x86/minimal. Ran emerge -vuDN world
> followed by `emerge --depclean' and `revdep-rebuild'. All succeeded.
>
> Does anyone know what library might be involved with scrolling
> previous/next with up/down arrow keys in vim? I thought readline
> right away but that is installed and at the newest version.
>
> I also thought it might be from coming in via ssh with xterm going to
> a console only install so I tried: TERM=linux ssh [...]
>
> It made no difference at all.
>
> Any ideas what else to look at?
Last time I was troubled with a similar behaviour over ssh, I discovered that
the default shell for the user on the remote machine (CentOS) was
not /bin/bash, but /bin/<zsh, or something_else>. Changed this to good ol'
bash and all these inconsistencies between my Gentoo and the remote box
disappeared.
HTH.
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Regards,
Mick
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