When I open a new tab in xfterm4, the terminal prompt sometimes doesn't display. If I press a key, then the prompt appears. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new tab in xfterm4 2. 3. Actual Results: The new tab displays a cursor but no prompt. Expected Results: A prompt is diplayed. This seems to happen more often if the tab I had been using was running a program. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.28-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7300_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 berkdb blas bzip2 cli cracklib crypt dri dv dvd emacs ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gpm gtk iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg latex mad midi mmx mng mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nodrm nosendmail nptl nptlonly ogg openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection session smp spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg sysfs tcpd tetex tiff unicode vorbis xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
xfterm4 is just a wrapper, I assume you're talking about Terminal?
assuming you're talking about x11-terms/terminal (please let us know if you are and if yes, which version), I cannot reproduce this problem here. is it just the prompt or are you also unable to type any commands? do you have some voodoo in your .<shell>rc and does it also happen with different shells?
Yes, I am using x11-terms/terminal (version 0.2.8.3). I can reproduce the behavior with both bash and sh. I don't have anything unusual in my shell rc files. The problem occurs sporadically. I'm not sure but I think it might start happening more often the longer the terminal is used. The one thing that seems to reproduce it consistently is to hold down Shift and Control and press T several times in rapid succession. (By consistently I mean that it almost always happens in at least one tab, not that it happens in every tab.) I can type commands just fine - in fact the prompt appears if I type anything.
sh is usually a symlink to bash, so that'd be the same shell
Oh, I forgot about that. Anyway, I just tried with zsh and the problem still happens.
I have no what's going on there, can't even reproduce it with ctrl+shift+t. Have you asked upstream about this?
please try to reproduce this with 0.2.10 and file a bug at http://bugzilla.xfce.org if the problem still appears
