Ports options not coming up

[Da Rock]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 14:15 +0200, rasz wrote:
> Da Rock wrote:
> > I'd to debug this, but I'm not even sure where to start. On just one
> > system since some recent updates I have no options screens coming up for
> > ports. I get a blue screen and then nothing; stdout says options
> > unchanged.
> >
> > It is a vm if that means anything?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
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> >   
> if i understand you correctly, and this is the same thing, i have had 
> this happen when
> building ports in a terminal emulator of sorts, particularly  the xfce4 
> one (and maybe kde4 konsole)
> when the actual window is too small (e.g. in number of lines). i would 
> see the blue screen for a bit and then
> options unchanged. it doesn't happen if at all if i keep the window a 
> good size, but i don't know about VM.

You know, I followed the vm track but I never even considered the
terminal! Duh! :)

Cheers