Package: xterm Version: 258-1 Severity: normal
When going from xterm255 to 258, the following happens: At random, at xterms on the X11 servers stop having working scrollbars. In that wedged state the xterm scrollbar will stay, the text shown will stay where it is and new output will be consed up below. You can manually scroll down but it will then again not display new text. Then, at random, it snaps into working behavior. This is a fresh install that doesn't have much running in the X11 server, just chrome, fvwm2, chat and pidgin. I have obserserved going into and out of wedged state literally without using any of the other clients. Again, whatever happens here, it affects all running xterm258s at once. It is X11 server wide. When wedged, all xterm-258s are weded, no other xterms. 258s that are on a remote tty (but local display) are wedged as much as long 258s. Other versions of xterm, including 255, continue working normally, including older xterms on local tty. It is probably coincidence but should be mentioned that getting in and out of the wedged state might be related to using mutt (a tty mailer). But I have been unable to reproduce the bug by deliberately messing with mutt. Again, this doesn't happen on just one machine. I had another debian-testing that I started a remote xterm on (remote tty, local X11 server) and that worked when that xterm was 255. I upgraded to 258 and it broke the same way the first 258 is broken. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.15-cracauer (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libutempter0 1.1.5-3 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xbitmaps 1.1.0-1 Base X bitmaps Versions of packages xterm recommends: ii x11-utils 7.5+3 X11 utilities ii xutils 1:7.5+6 X Window System utility programs m Versions of packages xterm suggests: pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100610230234.15753.83787.report...@pls.internal.itasoftware.com