retitle 347389 Error dialogs erroneously appear scrollable when all text is visible. thanks
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:51:01PM +0100, Edward Welbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.1-1 > Severity: normal > > When I aptitude -u I get a red error window saying <quote> > > W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.no.debian.org testing Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F > > </quote> and similar for two other entries from my sources.list, with > exactly the same NO_PUBKEY hex number (if anyone can tell me what to > do about *that* I'd be grateful, but it's not *this* bug); the big red > window this is in has a scroll-bar on the right; neither z nor > down-arrow scrolls it; the OK "button" is highlit, but Tab doesn't > take me off it to focus the error window. Consequently, I can't read > the further error messages (who knows, maybe they end by telling me > something I might be able to do about it - or, even, telling me which > package is responsible for checking public keys). Assuming those > messages were there for a reason, being able to read them probably > matters ... > > I have debian-keyring and debsig-verify installed; but uninstalling > them makes no difference to the error message or its unwillingness to > scroll. After a bit of testing, I believe that the bug is that the scrollbar claims more lines of text are available when in fact the entire message really is displayed: if the text *does* need to scroll, the arrow keys work just fine. You can confirm this by resizing the terminal vertically. Daniel
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