Hi all, while trying to figure out http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13835 I noticed something weird. When I run something like "dialog --no-kill --tailboxbg /var/log/dmesg.log 0 0" on my pc (or in a VM) in a shell, 2 dialog processes start (this should be normal. it forks itself in the background), and I get my shell prompt back. when new things are written to the log file, they show up, but since i'm back at the prompt this looks ugly. There is no nice ncurses interface in the foreground that follows the logfile, unlike when you run /arch/setup and install packages. working code: (/arch/setup) ( http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=blob_plain;f=setup;hb=HEAD ) # display pacman output while it's running DIALOG --title " Installing... Please Wait " \ --no-kill --tailboxbg "/tmp/pacman.log" 18 70 2>$ANSWER I even tried imitating it completely: DIALOG() { dialog --backtitle "$TITLE" --aspect 15 "$@"; } DIALOG --title " Installing... Please Wait " --no-kill --tailboxbg /var/log/dmesg.log 0 0 The problem remains. Any ideas? Dieter