'more' locks up terminal

Bug #1995804 reported by Skewray
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xfce4 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When I run /bin/more in a terminal window (tried both LXTerminal and xterm), the tab terminal application locks up at the end of the file and is no longer responsive to keyboard input. Old window text below the end of the file being 'more'ed is not erased. A new tab created in the same application window works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: util-linux 2.38-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-23.24-generic 5.19.7
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Nov 6 09:16:58 2022
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: util-linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Skewray (ubuntu-skewray) wrote :
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Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron) wrote :

Thanks for reporting your problem.

I ran more in xterm on a KDE desktop. After reaching the last line it displays "END" in the lower left corner. When I press the 'q' button I am back at the command line. Even if the file displayed has only one line the old content of the window is erased.

The issue seems not to be with package util-linux. But possibly there is a problem with xfce or the Nvidia driver.

affects: util-linux (Ubuntu) → xfce4 (Ubuntu)
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