Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Aug 1998 15:38:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | VERY STRANGE bug in 2.0.35 console display code |
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I just had the strangest thing occur, and I think it might be related to the Xwindows screen garble problem that people have been having with 2.0.x.
I'm assuming you know what I mean when I say "X windows screen garble problem".
Here is what just happened to me:
I have 2 machines connected via PLIP. When doing any sort of traffic on the PLIP cable, I get a fair amount of plip timeout messages on my console. This annoys me to no end, but that is easily fixed by commenting the line out in plip.c.
I just telnetted to the machine on the other end of the PLIP, and ran mke2fs to format a partition. The badblocks command was displaying an update of what sector was being tested, and this caused an endless stream of annoying PLIP timeout messages on all my console screens.
At the time, I was on another console editing the main kernel makefile, and was pressing CTRL-R (in joe) to refresh the screen and get rid of the kernel messages. I was also scrolling in the file at the same time.
My screen was abducted! In the makefile, I was looking at the "make modules" part. The line starts with "modules:".
This is difficult to describe so I'll try as best I can. While the display was scrolling (from me hitting down-arrow), I was pressing CTRL-R to keep the screen refreshed, then I let go of CTRL-R, and scrolled down some more. This time however, the line that started out "modules:" didn't scroll properly. The "modules:" part stayed put on the screen, however the rest of the line, and all lines above and below that scrolled no problem. The word modules: disappeared from the file where it normally was.
As soon as the plip messages stopped coming on the screen, this behaviour stopped immediately.
Any ideas as to what could cause this, and what a possible solution might be?
-- Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocate
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