Bug 805900

Summary:	gnome-terminal * VTE *: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap'
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mads Kiilerich <mads>
Component:	vte3	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	kalevlember, mclasen
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Description Mads Kiilerich 2012-03-22 12:04:22 UTC

I updated to vte3-0.32.0-1.fc17.i686 and immediately started getting
*** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap'
when opening a new tab in gnome-terminal-3.3.0-1.fc17.i686, and for example arrow keys didn't work.

Downgrading to vte3-0.31.0-4.fc17.i686 fixed it.

Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2012-03-22 12:18:25 UTC

Hmm. It seems like this only is seen when an existing gnome-terminal started with the old vte3 is running. After exiting gnome-terminal and starting it again it seems to work fine.

The impact might thus be very low - it is just a slightly odd upgrade experience. Recommending a reboot after the update might work as a solution.

Please close if you don't care ;-)

Comment 2 Kalev Lember 2012-03-22 12:43:40 UTC

Hi Mads,

I think the behaviour where opening new tabs doesn't work until gnome-terminal restart is perfectly fine for updates in a development version of Fedora.

Thanks for the report!