reset not working like 70% of the time

Kurt Jaeger lists at opsec.eu
Wed Jan 25 10:15:17 UTC 2017


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... ?

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