Re: BUG? -- sick virtual terminals.......

[Keith Owens]

On Mon, 1 Dec 1997 16:09:55 -0600 (CST), 
Paul J Thompson <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Say I am looking at a simple login screen, I login and work for a minute
>or so, then, while I have a full screen of text, the test stops scrolling
>correctly.  Whatever I do, each new line that appears which should cause
>the screen to scroll up a line actually replaces previous bottom line.  No
>scrolling occurs, I just get to watch the bottom line get repeatedly
>overwritten.

Something has redefined the virtual scrolling region on your virtual
terminal.  It's a feature of vt100/vt200 and related terminals which
probably affects other terminal types as well.  /usr/bin/reset usually
fixes the problem.  Nothing to do the with the kernel, one of your
programs is doing this.