Re: Installer login broken (ncurse?)

[Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:44:38 +0100
Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> > The gcc2 installer cd from 20-Mar-2005 02:18 (corecode) seems to
> > defective.
> > 
> > When logging in as installer on ttyv0 the following message appears:
> > 
> > vvv
> > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so1: Shared object "libpanel.so.2" not found, 
> > required by "dfuife_curses"
> > ^^^
> > ttyv1 is not available, (alt+F2) but on ttyv2 (I guess) the
> > following  message appears:
> > 
> > vvv
> > vidcontrol: switching vty: Invalid argument
> > Installer started
> > -----------------
> > * Creating DFUI connection on ``9999´´
> > * Connecting in ``9999´´
> > 
> > <white cursor wait block and nothing happens>
> > ^^^
> 
> Yeah,
> 
> I noticed this, too. It is because the dfuife_curses package corecode 
> puts on the CD is still linked against the old ncurses. I guess
> there's  nothing we can do about it until he returns from Madrid.

You can try

  http://cvs.bsdinstaller.org/iso-images/dfly-2005.0319.iso.bz2

in the meantime (in fact please do so, if you want to use/test the
installer.)

-Chris