Bug 11536

Summary:	Bash prompt invisible
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Reinout van Schouwen <reinout>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	goetz.waschk, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	vte-0.28.2-10.mga4.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Reinout van Schouwen 2013-10-24 23:45:43 CEST

Description of problem:
In both gnome-terminal and guake, my bash prompt has disappeared. The shell otherwise still works.
On a real tty, the problem does not occur.

I can export PROMPT='#' but that makes no difference.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

vte 0.28.2 might be the culprit?

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open gnome-terminal
2. Observe a blinking cursor but no prompt
3.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2013-10-27 20:11:07 CET

Is your font corrupt?
It happens on all distros on some HW from times to times (usually on some old Radeon).

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Reinout van Schouwen 2013-10-28 10:48:58 CET

Well my video card is a Radeon HD3470, but there is no problem on MGA3 which is installed on the machine as well. The font in the shell (if that's what you mean) looks perfectly normal. However there is a different display problem that I reported as bug 11267.

Comment 3 Götz Waschk 2014-01-01 14:08:31 CET

I can reproduce this. It is not related to vte or gnome-terminal but also happens in xterm. In a tty, $PS1 is set but in an xterm it is not. So maybe it is something in initscripts or /etc/profile.d/ that has changed in the last few days.

CC: (none) => goetz.waschk

Comment 4 Götz Waschk 2014-01-01 14:11:53 CET

I have also noticed that bash-completion is working fine in a tty but not in an xterm.

Comment 5 Reinout van Schouwen 2014-11-16 20:54:47 CET

Cannot reproduce this any more on my new machine, the laptop that showed this problem has died.

Comment 6 Dick Gevers 2014-11-16 21:16:35 CET

Is there presently anyone who can still reproduce it? Else it should be closed.

Comment 7 Reinout van Schouwen 2014-12-27 22:53:40 CET

Nope.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME