ANSWERED Careful: ncurses 6.1-3 on Arch breaks Eddie

[ezd 2]

On Arch I 

 

upgraded ncurses (6.0+20170902-3 -> 6.1-3)
 

 

 which broke eddie. There were lots of error messages and I downgraded again. Now it works again.

[LZ1 662]

Hello!

 

If by downgraded you mean you were using the experimental, then please post here.

[ezd 2]

Sorry, no, I downgraded ncurses to the previous version (as in the upgrade path).

[pingo_doce 0]

I can confirm this.

 

Eddie runs fine with ncurses 6.0+20170902-3 and fails to even start with ncurses 6.1-3.

This holds true for both Eddie 2.13.6 and 2.14.2 (experimental). I use the mono version btw.

 

System here ist Antergos Linux with kernel 4.15.3.

[ezd 2]

If you're on Arch too and still want to keep your system updated you can always use the --ignore option:

 

 

sudo pacman -Syu --ignore=ncurses

# or if you use pacaur like me:

pacaur -Syu --ignore=ncurses
 

[Clodo 171]

Thx for the feedback.
As explained here a bugfix exists: https://github.com/lewurm/mono/commit/f1361193d559a132cc356e03d2673bbcb9a05277 not sure when it will be deployed on AUR.
In the meantime, to avoid downgrade of ncurses,

TERM=xterm

it's a working workaround.