Debian Bug report logs - #360786
many curses applications (vi, aptitude) fail to draw

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joe Drew <drew@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: many curses applications (vi, aptitude) fail to draw

Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:44:41 -0400

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: grave

Since I updated gnome-terminal today, I've had intermittent but
repeatable problems with curses programs not drawing properly. I
generally work with very tall terminal windows, 80x63 or so. If I create
a terminal window of that height, then create three tabs, in the third
one vi doesn't display properly - all I see is two lines of help text
from the usual vim startup screen.

Instructions to repeat:
1. Open a gnome terminal window.
2. Resize it to 80x63.
3. Open vim. See if it draws properly.
4. Press Ctrl+Shift+T to open a new tab.
5. Goto 3.

After three repetitions of the loop (total of 3 tabs open), vi no longer
draws properly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center      1:2.12.3-2     utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data       2.14.0-1       Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.11.4-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.14.0-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-4        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.14.0-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.5.1-2      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.10.1-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.14.0-2       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.14.0-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.14.0-1       GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.16-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.0-1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.12.0-2       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.8-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte4                   1:0.12.0-1     Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.0.2-1    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-10      A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.12.2-4   Help browser for GNOME 2

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Message #10 received at 360786@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joe Drew <joe@drew.ca>

To: 360786@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#360786: Acknowledgement (many curses applications (vi, aptitude) fail to draw)

Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:03:58 -0400

severity 360786 normal
thanks

I inflated the severity of this bug.

This bug has been reproduced by a colleague of mine. He discovered that
a workaround was to resize the gnome-terminal window, then resize it
back to its original size. After that, vi draws properly.

Joe

Message #23 received at 360786@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org>

To: 360786@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Joe Drew <drew@debian.org>

Subject: #360786 many curses applications (vi, aptitude) fail to draw

Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:03:04 +0200

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Hello,

The workaround for me for this bug is to run "reset" in each
gnome-terminal. This gives me working terminals where vi, dselect,..
runs correctly.

-- 
Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org>
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org

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Message #30 received at 360786@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Matt Bishop" <matt_the_bishop@hotmail.com>

To: 360786@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#360786: Acknowledgement (many curses applications (vi, aptitude) fail

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:48:09 +0000

I'm seeing the same behaviour in gnome-terminal 2.14.1-1

Another workaround is:

export TERM=linux

(but then this messes up things like the home/end keys in vi)

Matt

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