On 29/07/2007, at 16:49, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On 29/07/2007, at 15:59, David Laight wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:13:33PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal  
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> While installing NetBSD on a shark machine, I've found that sysinst
>>> fails to clear the screen on multiple situations.  (I doubt this is
>>> specific to shark though.)  One of this is as follows:
>>>
>>> 1. Select "Install NetBSD to hard disk"
>>> 2. Select "Yes"
>>> 3. Press enter.
>>> 4. Select "Full installation"
>>>
>>> At this point, the screen displays the "layout" menu but below the
>>> introductory text (and overlapped with the menu itself), the text
>>> from the previous menu (distset) appears twice in the background.
>>
>> Sounds like a curses bug to me ...
>
> Probably.  I'm now trying to disable wcurses and see if that helps.
>
>> Or possibly a bug in your terminal emulator.
>
> I've also seen breakage in i386, so seems more a curses bug.  (See  
> #36560, have been able to reproduce it myself many times, and is  
> now also happening in shark too.)
>
> (Furthermore I don't remember this behavior when I installed NetBSD  
> on a shark back in March or so.)

Or maybe it is... switched the install kernel to use wscons instead  
of pccons and it doesn't show breakage.  (At least not in the menus.)

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>