Bug 805900 - gnome-terminal *** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap'
Summary: gnome-terminal *** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/t...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vte3
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-22 12:04 UTC by Mads Kiilerich
Modified: 2012-03-22 12:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-03-22 12:43:40 UTC
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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!
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