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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:26:09 +0100
From:      "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
Cc:        "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reset not working like 70% of the time
Message-ID:  <20170125102609.GA1359@hephaistos.local>
In-Reply-To: <20170125101517.GW13006@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <5888754F.2040901@norma.perm.ru> <20170125101517.GW13006@home.opsec.eu>

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On 2017-01-25 11:15:17, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > does anyone suffer from this too ? Right now (and for several last
> > years) a 100% decent way to reset a terminal session (for instance,
> > after a connection reset, after acidentally displaying a binary file
> > with symbols that are treated as terminal control sequence, after
> > breaking a cu session, etc) is to launch midnight commander and then
> > quit from it. And the reset is working like in 30% of cases only.
> [...]
> > Am I the only person seeing this ?
> 
> I had some cases in the past where xterm was hanging, too -- but
> not with *that* high rate of problems.
> 
> Most of the times, xterm's Full Reset options works fine.
> 
> The question is: how to debug that... ?

Use script(1) to record an offending session, including the reset. 
Then replay with script or cat or ... 

Regards,
-Martin



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