On 07-May-2003 at 15:05:49 Tom Diehl wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2003, John Horne wrote: >> I tried rebuilding the kernel at single-user mode, and whilst in itself >> this was not a problem using 'menuconfig' did not display correctly on >> the screen. Some of the menu characters were displaced to the right, as >> well as the 'Select' and 'Exit' tabs. It was 'useable' but obviously >> not right. >> > This could be the result of an improperly set LANG variable. echo $LANG to > see what it is set to. If it is *.UTF-8 that is possibly your problem. > Also you might want to compile the kernel in run level 3. That will > shutdown X and still have most other services running. That way you still > have a multiuser system and I do not think you will really notice a speed > difference. X is the big resource hog on most machines. > At single user mode LANG is not set. Setting it to 'C' or 'GB' made no difference. Setting LC_COLLATE and INPUTRC made no difference. Using 'env' at both runlevel s and 3 I could see little else that might affect this. Point taken about running at runlevel 3! :-) John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers
