For me the problem manifests itself, when I run top(1). There are some users here with long user names, which pushes COMMAND column in top's output to the very right -- 'D' is in the 80th position. This works fine in xterm, but on the consoles (cons25, cons30, etc.) the screen gets garbled -- an empty line is inserted between the column titles and the listing of processes. I don't think, the problem is top-specific. Either there is something about the cons* terminal types or the sc-console. Since manuall setting TERM to xterm on a console does not help, it is, probably, sc(4). How-To-Repeat: Create a user with the longest name possible. Run top on the text console.
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Dear submitter, Does this still occur in latest release, say 6.2-RELEASE or in HEAD? Regards, Rong-En Fan
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->rafan Track.
State Changed From-To: feedback->open Confirmed to still occur.
Responsible Changed From-To: rafan->freebsd-bugs Put back into pool. There are detailed explanations on freebsd-bugs@ mailing by ncurses author. As he stated, ncurses can not fix this problem since it depends on many other program. However, I agree with mi@ that this is indeed a problem.
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