Ubuntu
xterm package

font problem in xterm: every character comes with a vertical line

Bug #660245 reported by Christopher Barrington-Leigh on 2010-10-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #635258: Garbled chars in xterm. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xterm (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xterm

Since upgrade to Maverick, typing in my xterm looks like the attached image: every character is overwritten by a vertical line. Unusable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xterm 261-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1280x800
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DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1680x1050 1680x1050 1280x1024 1280x1024 1440x900 1440x900 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 832x624 800x600 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 720x400
edid-base64: AP///////wAebbNWgDoDAAsSAQNqMSB46q7FoldKnCUSUFSna4CVD5UAgYCBQHFPAQEBAQEBfC6QoGAaHkAwIDYA2igRAAAaITmQMGIaJ0BosDYA2igRAAAcAAAA/QA4Sx5TDwAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABXMjI0MQogICAgICAgAEg=
Date: Wed Oct 13 18:14:19 2010
DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 3.2.10: added
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. S62E
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=007cde67-4d7e-4761-8515-a7c92ddb9362 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xterm
dmi.bios.date: 07/13/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0208
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: S62E
dmi.board.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.version: 1.00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0208:bd07/13/2007:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnS62E:pvr1.0:rvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rnS62E:rvr1.00:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: S62E
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: maverick
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic