Bug 73218

Summary: In gnome-terminal, less fails to display file contents
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Joe Christy <joe.christy>
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Description Joe Christy 2002-09-01 00:50:05 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020712

Description of problem:
Instead of displaying file contents, less shows a single character

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a file with less, or pipe a command through less
	

Actual Results:  less displays a single character. The character depends
deterministically on the file contents, i.e. invoking less on the same file
always gives the same character. Interestingly, cat-ing the file to a pipe to
less gives the same character as well.

Expected Results:  less displays a screenful of the file contents or the
beginning of the output of the command piped to it.

Additional info:

The system was installed yesterday and up2date-ed today, 8/31/02

The following are the contents of /etc/sysconfig/i18n:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-16"
SYSFONTACM="utf8"
Comment 1 Tim Clymo 2002-09-01 17:21:16 UTC 
I fixed this by upgrading to vte-0.8.13-1 from rawhide
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-09-02 06:04:59 UTC 
This kinda makes it hard to read man pages. However a simple fix is to:
export LESS=-c

I currently have this line in my .bashrc as a workaround.
Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-09-02 17:02:54 UTC 
charlesrazzell: Please check if updating to the version of vte in Raw Hide fixes
this or not, as I'm fairly certain that this bug is already fixed.
Comment 4 Damien Miller 2002-09-03 08:14:44 UTC 
vte-0.8.13-1 fixes this bug for me.
Comment 5 Joe Christy 2002-09-03 16:23:02 UTC 
Today's (9/3/02) up2date fixed the problem for me.
Comment 6 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-09-05 19:36:18 UTC 
*** Bug 73409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Michael Lee Yohe 2002-09-06 05:23:28 UTC 
*** Bug 73564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Michael Lee Yohe 2002-09-06 05:27:39 UTC 
*** Bug 73567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***