scrolling broken during output

[Daniel Frey]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

How to reproduce:

Start something that produces lots of output, e.g.

ls -laR /

While it is running, press <shift>+<pgup>. What happens is that it scrolls up as fast and as far as it can, until it hits the beginning of the scroll window. At least this is what the scrollbar suggests, the actual content is no longer updated. In this state, press <shift>+<pgdown>. Now the content is removed, you are left with a blank window. If (after pressing <shift>+<pgup> or <shift>+<pgdown>) you press any other key, e.g. <space>, the terminal immediately works correctly again.

Scrolling with the mouse wheel has the same problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 28 00:24:13 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.17.92-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcCwd: /home/frey
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux fiasko 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413104

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream comment on the bug:

"The essence of this is that whilst you are looking into the history the output
continues into the future (the scrollbar slider moving rapidly upto the top).

Once you are looking at a screenful of data that is no longer in the scrollback
history then you hit bug 160127.

So I believe this should be classified as a dupe of 160127 as the first portion
is correct behaviour. Agreed?"

They marking it duplicate from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160127