gnome-terminal doesn't show text anymore

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, and after a big set of updates this morning (about 140) I started noticing weird behavior.

After the (asked-for) reboot gnome-terminal stopped working. It starts (randomly) in two different states:

1) A small window (~300x200). The cursor is about two pixels high. No text is shown, but the cursor moves as it would if (very small) text was entered, and commands do take effect. I checked the settings and it claims to use the system monospace font. I tried to set up a 12pt font manually and nothing seems to change.

2) A huge window, apparently several screens long and a quarter screen high. It shows what I think is a cursor almost a screen-width large. This happened only once or twice, then it reverted to (1). I couldn't resize the window except in two states, the huge size and a smaller (about half screen) size. Nothing was displayed except the huge cursor.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed with newest libgnome2 upload.

[Joachim Sauer (saua)]

I can confirm this bug with the latest updates.

gnome-terminal is 2.18.1-1ubuntu2.

Since gnome-terminal itself was not updated recently I assume it's not a direct fault in gnome-terminal.

[Ton Biegstraaten (ton-biegstraaten)]

Yesterday I filed the same bug, but as I can't find it anymore I confirm this one, only I haven't seen the big window.
A program called geany (a general IDE) can open a terminal and has the same problem there
I installed xterm in stead, as a work around.

[Hendrick Musche (hmu)]

Hi,
The Fix mentioned in bug #140642 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/140619) works.

[Hendrick Musche (hmu)]

Sorry, typo, i meant bug #140619

[Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb)]

Confirming that Hendrick's fix works. I used the deskbar to start an xterm and typed the command. There's probably a way to do that from the apps menu, too.

Thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.