Update 5 gnome terminal failure

[mhwelsh]

When Gnome Terminal is selected I am unable type in any text.
If I select Gedit the keyboard strokes are faithfully reproduced.

I have updated three systems, two on one computer, one of these from linux.com days before the 'release' and the other from rts-informatique.fr.
This machine is a two cylinder AMD 64 with Nvidia graphics. They both work normally.

The third machine, where the fault lies, is a MintBox updated from debian.lth.se. This again has a 2 cylinder AMD64 G-T56N with Radeon Graphics.

I have tried purging the Gnome Terminal software and reloading it, this had no effect.

I do not have a clue about how the keyboard output gets to the Gnome Terminal programme but I will be delighted to explore - under instruction.
I have installed Xfce4 terminal emulator meantime.

martin welsh

[zerozero]

from the machine where you have the faulty gnome-terminal can you provide us the output of

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inxi -FGx

tks a lot

[mhwelsh]

~Using the Xfce terminal emulator;

martin@fitpc3 ~ $ inxi -FGx
System: Host fitpc3 Kernel 3.2.0-3-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU: Dual core AMD G-T56N (-MCP-) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips 6585.68
Clock Speeds: (1) 825.00 MHz (2) 825.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320] X.Org 1.12.1.902 Res: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6250/6310] driver snd_hda_intel BusID: 00:01.1
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver snd_hda_intel BusID: 00:14.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.24
Network: Card-1 Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI at port 2000 BusID: 02:00.0
Card-2 Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver rtl8192ce at port 1000 BusID: 05:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (23.6% used) 1: /dev/sda KINGSTON_SH103S3 120.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 9.8G used: 6.2G (68%) fs: rootfs ID:/ size: 9.8G used: 6.2G (68%) fs: ext4
ID:/home size: 15G used: 1.8G (13%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 5.24GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.5C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes 143 Uptime 10 min Memory 334.3/3564.9MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.23

As you can see the HDD has been replaced with with an SDD.

martin welsh

[zerozero]

from here viewtopic.php?f=198&t=113073#p631249 you can try the following to fix the terminal issue

For anyone else with the terminal issue, a solution is to go into Edit / Profiles / Default / Colours, deselect Use colours from system theme and select the Built-in scheme Black on white.

Paul

just as a side note: and there goes with this 3 reports with the same issues with gnome terminal and all using amd/ati; totally unrelated of course

[mhwelsh]

Thank you for your diligence.
The recommendation to modify the terminal profile was fully effective.

I tried a search using the word 'terminal' I think it selected 90% of the forum contents - terminal is a very popular word!

Referring back to the problems relating to fonts my upgrades have given me slightly larger fonts on the desktop and I feel that they are an improvement. You can't please us all.

Many thanks again,

martin welsh

[mhwelsh]

My memory is perfect it is the timer that is broken!