Suggest to upgrade ncurses if Emacs aborts inside tparam1.

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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 3917d68bb56..c76f62d833d 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -217,6 +217,18 @@ This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know
 a good way of implementing it with widgets).  If Emacs is configured
 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
 
+* Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'.
+
+This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the
+terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo.
+If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your
+version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses
+and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this.
+
+All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the
+problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses
+terminfo when built.
+
 * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm.
 
 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal