Re: Emacs terminal corruption in Debian virtualbox guests

2015-04-04 Thread Dennis Schafroth
I am hit by this on one out of four virtual boxes guests running Debian 8 jessie (3 upgraded from wheezy, one installed clean). The one behaving bad is upgraded just as the other one running the same Mac mini host. The two others runs on another Mac mini. The package installed on bad is exact

Re: Emacs terminal corruption in Debian virtualbox guests

2014-12-27 Thread Dave Gomboc
I experience a similar phenomenon to what Andrew Cooper recently reported. In my case, the VirtualBox version is 4.3.20 r96997; the host is Windows 8.1; the guest is Debian Wheezy: $>uname -a Linux vm-wheezy-amd64 3.16.0-0.bpo-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 (2014-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Li

Emacs terminal corruption in Debian virtualbox guests

2014-12-27 Thread Andrew Cooper
Hello, I have encountered a situation where I observe terminal corruption when using emacs (either emacs-nox or emacs -nw). The corruption can be demonstrated easily using isearch-forward for a single character which appears multiple times in the current buffer, and repeatedly searching to

Re: Clear screen on logout (Re: Terminal Corruption)

1998-05-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brandon Mitchell wrote: ... >I finally broke down and did this the right way. Before, I was doing a >trap /usr/bin/clear EXIT >in my /etc/profile. Now I have the characters that are echoed by clear at >the top of my /etc/issue and I unlinked my /etc/issue.net from my >/etc/issue so tha

Clear screen on logout (Re: Terminal Corruption)

1998-05-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW I put reset in my .bash_logout > so that the tty gets reset when I logout > (unfortunatly it does it in xterms too with su etc... > there should be a better way? relaly I only did it to clear the > screen on logout) I finally broke down and did th

Re: Terminal Corruption

1998-05-04 Thread sjc
I have gotten this too... if you can tyope commands / login etc excpet it looks AFU then try this login on the AFU Terminal then use the command "reset" I have found this fixes it well BTW I put reset in my .bash_logout so that the tty gets reset when I logout (unfortunatly it does it in xterms t

Re: Terminal Corruption

1998-05-03 Thread Lazar Fleysher
You also may try Ctrl-v Ctrl-o and hit enter... On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any idea why / how to prevent the text on Virtual Consoles going nuts and > being > replaced with lots of funny garbage characters? > > This happens to me occasionally if I accidentally cat an executa

Re: Terminal Corruption

1998-05-03 Thread hospedales
Kewl. Thanx. it works. On 03-May-98 George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Any ideas? I really hate having to reboot my computer, it reminds me of >> windoze! >> > > Have you tried the following command: > > reset -- E-Mail: [EM

Terminal Corruption

1998-05-03 Thread hospedales
Any idea why / how to prevent the text on Virtual Consoles going nuts and being replaced with lots of funny garbage characters? This happens to me occasionally if I accidentally cat an executable file. But today it happened when I mounted an msdos floppy, and tried to do 'ls'. When this happens th