gvim corrupts text after Jaunty -> karmic upgrade
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vim (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: vim
The installed gvim application was running fine under Jaunty (on an IBM T30). Now, having upgraded to Karmic (but booted into 2.6.28-14 - owing to consistent failure to boot to 2.6.31-14 documented elsewhere), the application opens showing an initial screen on which all text is corrupted and wholly unreadable. On entering insert mode, all text entered text is displayed in corrupt fashion. If the gvim window is minimised and then subsequently recovered, any text is rendered readable ... any new text inserted is unreadable until such time as the window undergoes another minimise/maximise cycle.
The fault isn't, AFAICT, related to the font selected in the window - the same behaviour is exhibited irrespective of the selected font.
The attached screen shot shows the state of the app after some text had been entered, a minimise/maximise cycle undergone, followed by further text entry.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 3 02:35:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vim.gnome
Package: vim-gnome 2:7.2.245-2ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: vim
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686
| pointo1d (david-pointon) wrote | #1 |
| pjnoki (peter-johansson-oru) wrote | #2 |
I have also experienced this problem after upgrading from jaunty to
karmic (xubuntu 9.04 -> xubuntu 9.10). I have upgraded two different
machines, one with a 64-bit architecture (where this problem does not
show up), and one with a 32-bit architecture where the text is
unreadable on startup. Maximizing the window makes the text readable,
but newly added text is typically obscured again.
I guess that the origin of this problem is not gvim-specific because
there are other similar bugs. When using gftp the list of files on the
activated side (local or remote) is obscured; clicking a file, the text
on that line becomes unreadable, while the text in the other window is
intact. Moreover, clicking an icon on the xfce desktop makes the text
of that icon unreadable, while the text of other icons still can be
read. Also these latter two problems occur on the 32-bit machine but
not on the 64-bit one.