Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
(I checked for bugs filed on gnome-terminal in Launchpad that might
match this but couldn't find any. Sorry if it's a dupe.)
While using gnome-terminal today I was surprised when what was once in
my terminal buffer was replaced with the contents of another terminal
(which based on my hazy recollection had already been closed). The end
result looked like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/manage$ cd app
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/manage/app$ fgrep -r valid_order_number * | grep
-v svn | less
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -k uid
DBI::DBD (3pm) - Perl DBI Database Driver Writer's Guide
fdutilsconfig (8) - configure the suid bit of fdmount
findfs (8) - Find a filesystem by label or UUID
geteuid (2) - get user identity
getpwuid (3) - get password file entry
getpwuid_r (3) - get password file entry
getresuid (2) - get real, effective and saved user or group ID
getuid (2) - get user identity
LDP (7) - Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with
help, guides and documents
mdoc (7) - quick reference guide for the -mdoc macro package
rrd-beginners (1) - RRDtool Beginners' Guide
seteuid (2) - set effective user or group ID
setfsuid (2) - set user identity used for file system checks
setresuid (2) - set real, effective and saved user or group ID
setreuid (2) - set real and/or effective user or group ID
setuid (2) - set user identity
Template::Manual (3pm) - User guide and reference manual for the Template
Toolkit
update-rcconf-guide (8) - Create default guide file for rcconf
uuid (3) - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier
library
uuid_clear (3) - reset value of UUID variable to the NULL value
uuid_compare (3) - compare whether two UUIDs are the same
uuid_copy (3) - copy a UUID value
uuid_generate (3) - create a new unique UUID value
uuid_generate_random (3) - create a new unique UUID value
uuid_generate_time (3) - create a new unique UUID value
uuid_is_null (3) - compare the value of the UUID to the NULL value
uuid_parse (3) - convert an input UUID string into binary
representation
uuid_time (3) - extract the time at which the UUID was created
uuid_unparse (3) - convert an UUID from binary representation to a
string
uuidgen (1) - command-line utility to create a new UUID value
vol_id (8) - probe filesystem type and read label and uuid
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ history|tail
494 vi <somefile>
495 mprodb
496 finger
497 ssh <hostomitted>
498 ssh <hostomitted>
499 ssh -vvv <hostomitted>
500 ssh <hostomitted>
501 man geteuid
502 man -k uid
503 history|tail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Note that the following commands at the top of the paste aren't in the
output of 'history|tail':
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/manage$ cd app
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/manage/app$ fgrep -r <STRINGOMITTED> * | grep -v
svn | less
For the combination of history output and terminal buffer output to make
sense, command 501 should have been 'fgrep -r <STRINGOMITTED> * | grep
-v svn | less' and command 500 should have been 'cd app'.
Before the change in the buffer, the line:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -k uid
originally was preceded by the line:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man geteuid
On the remote system, this command normally leaves the following output
in my buffer:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man geteuid
Reformatting geteuid(2), please wait...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
The version of man on the remote system uses less as its pager by
default, I think. If it's important to verify that, I will. (Just let
me know how to verify it.) When in the pager, hitting 'q' causes the
TTY to redraw. I suspect the redraw event itself brought about the
problem. Running man or less on the remote host over and over doesn't
reproduce the problem.
I installed Ubuntu 8.04 Friday morning (California time) and this is the
second time this has happened. I didn't believe my eyes the first time
it happened, but the second time around I wasn't able to dismiss it as a
glitch in the Matrix.
Local system info:
The local system running gnome-terminal is a Thinkpad X60s with Ubuntu 8.04.
Was originally Gutsy Gibbon. I used the update manager's dist upgrade
feature to migrate to 8.04.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
Installed: 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://ftp.usf.edu hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux phoenix 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2066500 1843820 222680 0 204392 893308
-/+ buffers/cache: 746120 1320380
Swap: 3229024 0 3229024
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uptime
23:33:07 up 1 day, 20:20, 5 users, load average: 0.21, 0.26, 0.16
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps auxw|grep gnome-terminal
chase 22651 0.0 2.0 122856 41920 ? Sl Apr25 1:38
gnome-terminal --geometry 80x30
chase 30400 0.0 0.0 3008 776 pts/1 S+ 23:33 0:00 grep
gnome-terminal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l gnome-terminal
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-terminal --version
GNOME gnome-terminal 2.22.1
Remote system info:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/manage$ cat /etc/debian_version
4.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/manage$ man -V
man, version 2.4.3, 2005-07-03
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/manage$ which less
/usr/bin/less
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/manage$ less -V
less 394
Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman
** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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gnome terminal scrollback buffer changed unexpectedly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222937
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