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xterm package

Font corruption in xterm under Lucid

Bug #700477 reported by Albert Chin on 2011-01-08

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

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xterm

Experiencing font corruption in xterm under Lucid. A snapshot is at http://www.lystra.org/compiz-bug.png. The "rm compiz-bug-0.png compiz-bug-1.png" shows the problem. I have compiz 0.8.4-0ubuntu15.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xterm 256-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-27.49-generic 2.6.32.26+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 8 15:27:40 2011
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MachineType: IBM 2378FZU
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
   no product info available
Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
   no card
Socket 1:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-27-generic root=UUID=7c82adb4-e3ff-41d3-9462-e2d689d27927 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: xterm
dmi.bios.date: 10/29/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1RETDHWW (3.13 )
dmi.board.name: 2378FZU
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1RETDHWW(3.13):bd10/29/2004:svnIBM:pn2378FZU:pvrThinkPadT42:rvnIBM:rn2378FZU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2378FZU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T42
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.32-27-generic

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Albert Chin (bugs-ubuntu-vendor) wrote on 2011-01-08:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (46.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (10.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (361 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (777 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (529 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (231 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (110.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (244.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (38.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (39.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (15.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (248 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (17.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (54.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Albert Chin (bugs-ubuntu-vendor) wrote on 2011-01-08:

Snapshot of xterm exhibiting the bug Edit (53.1 KiB, image/png)

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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote on 2011-01-08: Re: [Bug 700477] [NEW] Font corruption in xterm under Lucid

On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Albert Chin wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: xterm
>
> Experiencing font corruption in xterm under Lucid. A snapshot is at
> http://www.lystra.org/compiz-bug.png. The "rm compiz-bug-0.png compiz-
> bug-1.png" shows the problem. I have compiz 0.8.4-0ubuntu15.

This is a duplicate of 635258 (a bug in compiz rather than xterm).

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