Debian Bug report logs - #489908
First line not output correctly

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

From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>

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

Subject: First line not output correctly

Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:28:08 +0200

Package: less
Version: 418-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

Since a few months, the first line of a file that is displayed when less
is started is printed with a pseudo-random (positive or negative)
offset; pseudo-random, as in, it is the same for any given file on any
'less' run, but it changes on a per-file basis. Once the file is
visible, if you hit ^L to redraw the screen, everything is fine; it's
just the very first time that things go wrong.

It very much looks like an uninitialized variable somewhere.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages less depends on:
ii  debianutils               2.30           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.7-12         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080621-2 shared libraries for terminal hand

less recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 489908@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yoshio Nakamura <gnufreedom100@gmail.com>

To: 489908@bugs.debian.org, 489908-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: less: line not output correctly -- not seen on 436-1 (Squeeze testing)

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:49:27 -0800

Package: less
Severity: normal

> Since a few months, the first line of a file that is displayed when less
> is started is printed with a pseudo-random (positive or negative)
> offset; pseudo-random, as in, it is the same for any given file on any
> 'less' run, but it changes on a per-file basis. Once the file is
> visible, if you hit ^L to redraw the screen, everything is fine; it's
> just the very first time that things go wrong.

I'm using version 436-1 (Squeeze Testing), and I don't see this problem.
Have you upgraded to Squeeze?  If so, can you re-test?

Yoshio

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages less depends on:
ii  debianutils               3.4            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-7       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand

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