terminal stays blank/black

Bug #85437 reported by Miek Gieben
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Terminal
Fix Released
High
vte (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When switching workspaces the gnome-terminal screen sometimes stays complete black. The
supplied screenshot shows what I mean. I'm using a black background and a white foreground.

gnome-terminal:
Version: 2.17.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64

This was working in previous versions of gnome-terminal.

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Miek Gieben (miek) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for forwarding that upstream. That has been fixed to GNOME svn

Changed in gnome-terminal:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

 vte (1:0.15.4-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release:
     - Fixes Bug "Yet another mouse selection regression...",
     - Fixes Bug "Orca repeats old text in gnome-terminal",
     - Fixes Bug "Slow content scrolling, takes 100% of CPU.",
     - Fixes Bug "Poor interactive performance with multiple terminals",
     - Fixes Bug "slow highlight",
     - Fixes Bug "SVN trunk compilation error",
     - Fixes Bug "Fails to build with -z defs"
     - Fixes Bug "slider not correctly positioned after calling less" (LP:
       #87024)
     - Fixes Bug "Poor interactive performance with multiple terminals",
     - Fixes Bug "First line displayed incorrectly if prompt changes background
       color",
     - Fixes Bug "gnome-terminal not parsing cursor position escape sequence
       properly",
     - Fixes Bug "Terminal stays blank" (LP: #85437),
     - Fixes Bug "gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in
       vte_terminal_draw_graphic()" (LP: #85956),
     - Fixes Bug '"GNOME" Terminal" regression after "vte" update when using
       "csh"',
     - Fixes Bug "trouble compiling vte 0.15.3",
     - Fixes Bug "vte automagic hyperlinks",
     - Fixes Bug "Use of environ breaks build on Solaris",
     - Fixes Bug "regression in mouse selection".
   * debian/patches/01_fix_scrolling.patch:
     - dropped, fixed upstream.
   * debian/patches/01-from-svn-fix-412562.patch:
     - Fixup a few 64bit-isms, notably format strings and an undesired
       unsigned integer promotion causing this crash.

Changed in vte:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Miek Gieben (miek) wrote :

Bug is back... I've left a commit upstream. This is with gnome 2.18 on Feisty

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Miek Gieben (miek) wrote :

Even with:

Package: libvte9
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 2396
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: vte
Version: 1:0.16.0-0ubuntu3

still there :(

Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Unknown → High
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