nano-1.2.2 strange output

[Net Llama!]

On 08/24/03 05:57, el lodger wrote:

> After upgrading to portage-2.0.49 I ran etc-update and then tried to
> edit make.conf with nano. Nano produced some blinking blocks of text
> that said something like "painting line 1 new line is". This is not
> verbatim as I exited nano immediately. Konsole then showed the
> following:
> 
> bash-2.05b$ nano -w /etc/make.conf
> Main: set up windows
> delete_node(): free'd a node, YAY!
> delete_node(): free'd a node, YAY!
> delete_node(): free'd a node, YAY!
> (snip,snip many,many lines of the same)
> delete_node(): free'd a node, YAY!
> delete_node(): free'd last node.
> delete_opennode(): free'd last node.
> 
> To me this looks like a virus. What do you think?
> Everything else seems to be running ok.
> 
> Portage 2.0.49 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1,
> 2.4.20-gentoo-r4)
> =================================================================
> System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r4 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
> ccache version 2.2 [enabled]
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"

Looks like you built nano with debugging symbols turned on:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22delete_node():+free%27d+a+node,+YAY!%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=handler.111237.D111237.10021739178042.ackdone%40bugs.debian.org&rnum=1
(Google is your friend)

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