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Serial Number 2036
Subject IRIX binary verson: 'ESC' and 'Enter' disfunctional.
Area bug
Queue grass
Requestors enayet.ullah@defence.gov.au
Owner none
Status resolved
Last User Contact Mon Jul 28 13:24:04 2003 (5 yr ago)
Current Priority 70
Final Priority 70
Due No date assigned
Last Action Fri Aug 8 11:21:49 2003 (5 yr ago)
Created Thu Jul 24 03:29:13 2003 (5 yr ago)

Transaction History Ticket 2036


Thu, Jul 24 2003 03:29:13    Request created by guest  
Subject: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED RE: GRASS IRIX binary version was installed in SGI
Fuel Systems but the 'ESC' and 'Enter'  keys of keyboard are disfunctional. Is
there any advice how to make it work.

Platform: Irix
grass obtained from: Mirror of Trento site
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
GRASS Version: 5.Opre3

Please enter error description here (and your name)


Enayet Ullah
Email: enayet.ullah@defence.gov.au

Hi GRASS users,

When GRASS5.Opre3 was run with the option '-text', the "Esc" key as well as some
selection for "Enter" key is not accepted and the system hung. GRASS was installed
on SGI Fuel system after downloading the binaries. The fuel envirnment options
"env" shows LANG=C.  I have contacted SGI to check the keyboard type and it has
not been changed from the ONYX or Indigo keyboard. I would like to know, whether
other Fuel users have been experiencing the same or is there any remedy for such
a problem. 
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Request Tracker wrote:

> When GRASS5.Opre3 was run with the option '-text', the "Esc" key as
> well as some selection for "Enter" key is not accepted and the system
> hung. GRASS was installed on SGI Fuel system after downloading the
> binaries. The fuel envirnment options "env" shows LANG=C. I have
> contacted SGI to check the keyboard type and it has not been changed
> from the ONYX or Indigo keyboard. I would like to know, whether other
> Fuel users have been experiencing the same or is there any remedy for
> such a problem.

This usually indicates a bug in the system's "curses" library.

When curses receives an ESC character (code 27), it waits to see if it
is followed by other characters which constitute a recognised escape
sequence (e.g for cursor keys, function keys etc). It should only wait
for a short period; if no other codes are received within that period,
the ESC code should be reported as an individual key press.

However, some systems (and I think that includes some IRIX systems)
seem to wait forever.

One possibility: you could try explicitly enabling the timeout, by
adding the line:

	notimeout(stdscr, FALSE);

to src/libes/vask/V_init.c.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>


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Subject Re: [GRASS5] [bug #2036] (grass) SEC: UNCLASSIFIED RE: GRASS IRIX binary version was installed in SGI Fuel Systems but the 'ESC' and 'Enter' keys of keyboard are disfunctional. Is there any advice how to make it work.
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The problem was with the 5.0.0pre5 IRIX binaries. It seems to be a bug in
the keypad() function in the SGI implementation of the curses library and
occurs when running through the IRIX winterm. If you use another terminal
emulator, e.g. xterm or telnet into the machine, the Esc and Enter keys
work fine.

However the latest 5.0.2 IRIX binaries, which have been available for
several months now, do not have this problem as I manually disabled the
calls to the keypad() function before compiling the binaries.

So, two possible solutions:
1) Keep the 5.0.0pre5 and run through an xterm (for example)

2) Upgrade to the 5.0.2 binaries

Any further reports on the usability of the IRIX binaries would be welcome
as they do not get much testing.

Paul Kelly

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Request Tracker wrote:

> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2036
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED RE: GRASS IRIX binary version was installed in SGI
Fuel Systems but the 'ESC' and 'Enter'  keys of keyboard are disfunctional. Is
there any advice how to make it work.
> 
> Platform: Irix
> grass obtained from: Mirror of Trento site
> grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
> GRASS Version: 5.Opre3
> 
> Please enter error description here (and your name)
> 
> 
> Enayet Ullah
> Email: enayet.ullah@defence.gov.au
> 
> Hi GRASS users,
> 
> When GRASS5.Opre3 was run with the option '-text', the "Esc" key as well as
some selection for "Enter" key is not accepted and the system hung. GRASS was
installed on SGI Fuel system after downloading the binaries. The fuel envirnment
options "env" shows LANG=C.  I have contacted SGI to check the keyboard type
and it has not been changed from the ONYX or Indigo keyboard. I would like to
know, whether other Fuel users have been experiencing the same or is there any
remedy for such a problem. 
> 
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Thu, Jul 24 2003 11:43:54    Status changed to resolved by bernhard  
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Glynn Clements wrote:

...
> However, some systems (and I think that includes some IRIX systems)
> seem to wait forever.
>
> One possibility: you could try explicitly enabling the timeout, by
> adding the line:
>
> 	notimeout(stdscr, FALSE);
>
> to src/libes/vask/V_init.c.

I think we tried that before and it didn't work:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2002-December/004473.html

But maybe it is worth taking the issue up with the vendor as a bug. I
think our support contract with SGI here at QUB has expired, but if, as
the bug report implies, the problem is still there on the latest models,
somebody with a current support contract etc. could take it further.


Mon, Jul 28 2003 13:24:04    Status changed to open by _rt_system  
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Thanks very much for sending the helpful hints and it is working. I will try
to download version 5.0.2 and hopefully that will run in Winterm in SGI
IRIX.

Regards.

Enayet Ullah
Senior Engineer Mobility and Terrain Analysis
Manoeuvre Systems Program
Land Engineering Agency (LEA)
Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO)
Department of Defence

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this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2036

Mon, Jul 28 2003 13:24:04: Request 2036 was acted upon.

 Transaction: Status changed to open by _rt_system
 
       Queue: grass
        Area: bug               
     Subject: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED RE: GRASS IRIX binary version was installed
in SGI Fuel Systems but the 'ESC' and 'Enter'  keys of keyboard are
disfunctional. Is there any advice how to make it work.
       Owner: 
  Requestors: enayet.ullah@defence.gov.au    
      Status: open

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Fri, Aug 8 2003 11:21:38    Subject changed to IRIX binary verson: 'ESC' and 'Enter' disfunctional. by bernhard  
Fri, Aug 8 2003 11:21:49    Status changed to resolved by bernhard  
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