Bug 509553
| Summary: | [REG] less does not display long lines properly when scrolling line per line | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan> | ||||
| Component: | less | Assignee: | Nikola Pajkovsky <npajkovs> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 5.3 | CC: | adamb, ben.argyle, dhoward, dkovalsk, kem, peregrine, ralph, rlerch, robh, rvokal, stephan.wiesand, tao, thughes, tis | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Patch, Rebase, Regression | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| : | 510724 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2010-03-30 08:17:45 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | |||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 499522, 510724, 541103 | ||||||
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Description
Olivier Fourdan
2009-07-03 13:31:05 UTC
Sorry, I just find out that the proposed patch is not complete either. When browsing a man page with the arrow cursor down key, the following message appears at times: : ESCOB This did not happen before. So the patch is either incomplete or not totalyl appropriate. (In reply to comment #5) > When browsing a man page with the arrow cursor down key, the following message > appears at times: > > : ESCOB > > This did not happen before. So the patch is either incomplete or not totalyl > appropriate. That particular problem is also present in less-418 but seems to be fixed in less-429 Can someone tell me when a fix for this bug will be released, please? Every RHEL5.4 (fully patched) box I have, when scrolling through long files with long lines, garbles the display of a file. Paging through using the space bar works fine. Pressing ctrl-l after the output becomes garbles also works but I was really hoping that line-by-line scrolling would also work. Is there an ETA on this bug being resolved? With thanks. Ben, you may want to try the "--old-bot" option as a workaround as described in this KBase article: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17739 Awesome! That fixes my immediate problem. Is there an actual long term solution or am I going to have to change every user's .*profile on every single RHEL5 workstation and server to alias less to "less --old-bot"? Thanks for the pointer. Ben, you do know that you could change /etc/bashrc, right ? we have a plan to rebase less in RHEL5. manuel: Sorry, I was having a Solaris moment and forgot entirely about /etc/bashrc. Having to do every machine is admittedly slightly less annoying than doing every user on every machine. Nikola: That's great. Thank you. I'll assume 5.5 or 5.6. Either way, enough time from now to make changing /etc/bashrc worthwhile. Apologies all round, generally. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0214.html Is there a time delay for this errata to be published? It has been two hours now and I'm still getting a 404. (Sorry about adding this as a comment, but I'm presuming "errata-xmlrpc" isn't a human, so an email to it about this problem would be futile.) |