top output messed up when first column selected, highlighted

[Philipp Kohlbecher]

Binary package hint: procps

top(1) output is messed up when the first column (PID) is selected for sorting and highlighted.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a terminal or switch to a virtual console.
2. Start top.
3. Hit 'x' to enable column highlighting. (The effect of this is not visible. Another bug?)
4. Hit '<' a couple of times (8 times) to select the first column (PID).

I am using Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) with procps 1:3.2.7-3ubuntu5.

[Koen (koen-beek)]

Confirmed on gutsy amd64 and hardy amd64

I include a screencast on gutsy but hardy is identical

gutsy amd64
uname : 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:28:27 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
procps 1:3.2.7-3ubuntu5

hardy amd64 (in vmware)
uname : 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 14 18:19:11 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
procps 1:3.2.7-5ubuntu1

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

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[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

I tested that this has been fixed in Raring. The same package is in 12.10, so I'm going to mark this has fixed.

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