I have an application that's running curses on a weird linux environment... a lot of the base paths of stuff are non standard. But other screen applications run fine.

I've set TERMINFO_DIRS and gotten the ncurses application to run. Using a nonstandard terminfo path.

I see windows draw up fine, and when I remove addstr() function calls it runs properly... even keyboard interaction.

It goes to segmentation fault whenever I attempt to print string text to a window. ( screen.addstr() )

I thought it was a LOCALE issue, but I've been unable to make it work toggling environment vars. Also in strace I see the locale info loading just fine.

I compared my strace to an strace from top to see if I could spot any inconsistences and I saw nothing.

Here's a tail end of the strace output...

open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(104, 1), st_ino=42649592, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=2456, st_atime=2009/10/09-20:18:08, st_mtime=2007/09/12-17:11:21, st_ctime=2009/02/19-22:20:38}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 2456, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x2a96417000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(104, 1), st_ino=42649589, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=59, st_atime=2009/10/09-20:18:08, st_mtime=2007/09/12-17:11:09, st_ctime=2009/02/19-22:20:38}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 59, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x2a96418000
close(3)                                = 0
futex(0x603b30, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)          = 0
futex(0x603b30, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)          = 0
futex(0x603b30, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)          = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2506, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a3b, c_line=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
access("/home/user/.terminfo/v/vt100", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/opt/opsware/ogfsutils/share/terminfo/v/vt100", R_OK) = 0
open("/opt/opsware/ogfsutils/share/terminfo/v/vt100", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\32\1,\0&\0\7\0\16\1\"\2", 12) = 12
read(3, "vt100|vt100-am|dec vt100 (w/adva"..., 44) = 44
read(3, "\0\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 38) = 38
read(3, "P\0\10\0\30\0\377\377\377\377\377\377\3\0", 14) = 14
read(3, "\377\377\0\0\2\0\4\0\25\0\32\0&\0.\0\377\377\377\3777\0L\0N\0\377\377R\0\377\377"..., 540) = 540
read(3, "\7\0\r\0\33[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr\0\33[3g\0\33[H\33[J"..., 546) = 546
read(3, "", 10)                         = 0
close(3)                                = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2506, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a3b, c_line=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2506, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a3b, c_line=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2506, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a3b, c_line=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=69, ws_col=153, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2506, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a3b, c_line=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2506, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a3b, c_line=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2506, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a3b, c_line=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {c_iflags=0x2406, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a39, c_line=0, c_cc[VMIN]=1, c_cc[VTIME]=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {c_iflags=0x2406, c_oflags=0x1, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a31, c_line=0, c_cc[VMIN]=1, c_cc[VTIME]=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x2a95e35f30, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x2a9577b5b0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, NULL, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {0x2a95e361d0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x2a9577b5b0}, NULL, 8) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2406, c_oflags=0x1, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a31, c_line=0, c_cc[VMIN]=1, c_cc[VTIME]=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {c_iflags=0x2406, c_oflags=0x1, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a31, c_line=0, c_cc[VMIN]=1, c_cc[VTIME]=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
write(1, "\33(B\33)0\33[1;69r\33[m\17\33[?7h\33[?1h\33=", 29) = 29
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_IGN}, {0x2a95e35f30, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x2a9577b5b0}, 8) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x2406, c_oflags=0x1, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a31, c_line=0, c_cc[VMIN]=1, c_cc[VTIME]=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(1, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=69, ws_col=153, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0}) = 0
write(1, "\33[H\33[J\33[0m\16lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq"..., 754) = 754
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x2a95e35f30, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x2a9577b5b0}, NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ KILLED BY sigsegv +++