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

[Olaf Titz]

> 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

Looks like some program has messed up your terminal. (The VT100
emulation allows stuff like defining scrolling regions, etc.)
When this happens, try "reset" or echoing "ESC c" which puts the
terminal in a defined state.

I have ESC c in /etc/issue for this reason.

olaf