Bug 55386 - exiting emacs SOMETIMES leaves terminal settings in bad state
Summary: exiting emacs SOMETIMES leaves terminal settings in bad state
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: emacs
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-30 17:29 UTC by Bishop Clark
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-10-30 17:29:54 UTC
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Description Bishop Clark 2001-10-30 17:29:48 UTC
Description of Problem:
After SOME emacs sessions are exited, the terminal may be in a bad state.  
While the program functions normally, with no ill effects, after leaving 
the program, the terminal may have poor settings for ^D, ^C, ^H, ^J and may 
no longer echo command line entry to the screen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
20.7-41

How Reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rlogin to system.  The problem happens more often with rlogin, but 
terminal problems can occur with SSH.
2. run emacs.  Perform operations that mofidy large portions of the screen 
- rebuild an RPM, for instance, or seomthing else that clears the screen.
3. Exit emacs.  Terminal is now messed up.

Actual Results:
Misbehaving terminal, as described.

Expected Results:
Terminal settings similar to that of a fresh login

Additional Information:
This may be a terminal problem and not a setup problem.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-11-05 21:08:46 UTC
I use emacs extensively, and have never seen that... probably a terminal
problem. Reopen if you can provide a reprodusible testcase on a known-good
terminal (i.e. windows telnet doesn't count ;).

Comment 2 Bishop Clark 2001-11-05 21:12:45 UTC
Hmm.  Can windows DO rlogin?  8-)  


Comment 3 Olivier Baudron 2001-11-25 02:37:08 UTC
Same as Teg. I am addicted to emacs and I cannot reproduce this bug on my
rawhide linux box. But I have already seen this kind of bug in the past, caused
by a broken /bin/login.

Comment 4 Bishop Clark 2001-11-25 22:56:35 UTC
I'll see if I can cook up a procedure guaranteed to set it off then.


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