Bug 7043 - Gnome Terminal prompt
Summary: Gnome Terminal prompt
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-libs
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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: 6072 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-11-16 13:34 UTC by andrew.pickin
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2000-02-29 19:51:33 UTC

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Description andrew.pickin 1999-11-16 13:34:51 UTC 
After running vi in a gnome terminal, the terminal's prompt is prefixed
with as 'c'.
This does not happen with the graphical '-g' option with vim.
Does happen with vim 5.4 rpm and 5.5 built from source.
It does not affect regular xterms.

Example:

[root@royals init.d]# vim
c[root@royals init.d]# vi -v
c[root@royals init.d]# PS1='> '
> vi
c>
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 1999-11-17 21:40:59 UTC 
I can reproduce this, but I have no idea what causes it.
I'm sending it upstream to the gnome-terminal author to
see what he thinks.
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 1999-11-29 17:06:59 UTC 
*** Bug 6072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2000-01-24 17:11:59 UTC 
This bug has just been fixed in the upstream CVS version of GNOME;
when the GNOME Project makes a release of the fixed version,
we will include it in Red Hat.
Comment 4 Preston Brown 2000-02-16 15:36:59 UTC 
Havoc:

Will this make it for 6.2?
Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2000-02-16 17:21:59 UTC 
CVS version (stable branch) seems to have a number of fixes, including
this and the segfault-if-E-background-pixmap-no-longer-exists bug.
I think I'll just diff our tarball against the CVS version of the
terminal and apply the patch to the RPM. However the patch is somewhat large and
it makes me a bit nervous to use the unreleased code.
Comment 6 Havoc Pennington 2000-02-17 17:23:59 UTC 
On second thought, it turns out that on Feb 1 we updated the Rawhide
RPM to the latest upstream version, and I can no longer reproduce this
bug.
Comment 7 andrew.pickin 2000-02-18 09:08:59 UTC 
If gnome-core-1.0.55-7.i386.rpm is supposed to fix this bug, unfortunately I can
confirm that it DOES NOT.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50800 Feb  9 00:58 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal

still puts a 'c' on the prompt on returning from vim.

Sorry
Comment 8 Havoc Pennington 2000-02-18 16:27:59 UTC 
The bug is in gnome-LIBS not gnome-core. If upgrading the libraries
doesn't help then let me know.
Comment 9 andrew.pickin 2000-02-18 16:33:59 UTC 
Yes fixed, agreed, it's gone away. Thanks.
Comment 10 andrew.pickin 2000-02-21 11:12:59 UTC 
No. It's only fixed over remote login.

See:

[root@royals GNOME]# rpm -Uvh gnome-libs-1.0.55-9.i386.rpm
gnome-libs-devel-1.0.55-9.i386.rpm
package gnome-libs-1.0.55-9 is already installed
package gnome-libs-devel-1.0.55-9 is already installed
[root@royals GNOME]# vi
c[root@royals GNOME]#
Comment 11 Preston Brown 2000-02-24 02:01:59 UTC 
havoc: this bug does persist. Not sure if it is going to get fixed or not...
Comment 12 Havoc Pennington 2000-02-29 19:51:59 UTC 
ok, NOW it is supposed to be fixed with the latest gnome-libs.
Comment 13 andrew.pickin 2000-03-01 12:35:59 UTC 
AMP: Sorry, still there!

[root@royals download]# rpm -Uvh gnome-libs-1.0.55-12.i386.rpm
package gnome-libs-1.0.55-12 is already installed
[root@royals download]# vi
c[root@royals download]# date
Wed Mar  1 12:44:26 GMT 2000
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