[SOLVED] Latest version of VTE break gnome-terminal

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nukem996 · Post by **nukem996** » Sun May 01, 2011 7:26 pm

Last night I did an update which updated VTE. Now whenever I open gnome-terminal I get the following message

*** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap'

While I can still type in the terminal I can't use the enter key, which makes the terminal pretty useless. Anyone know whats wrong?

Thanks,

nuke

Honselas · Post by **Honselas** » Sun May 01, 2011 7:29 pm

I got the same thing and a reboot fixed it for me.

nukem996 · Post by **nukem996** » Mon May 02, 2011 7:04 am

Yeah that fixed it for me. Wish I didn't have to do that though :\

schrdlu · Post by **schrdlu** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:12 pm

nukem996 wrote:Yeah that fixed it for me. Wish I didn't have to do that though :\

I had a hassle with vte falling over looking for libffi.so.5,which is not in my system. So I created a link to it & libffi.so.6.0.0.
This fixed the compile problem. but methinks some one could take a look at vte-0.28.1-r300 and cure the call to this lib ,also -r200 has the same hassle.
libffi.so.5 probably has been removed,on a previous depclean.

Po0ky · Post by **Po0ky** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:14 am

There is no need to reboot though, make sure you close all running instances of your terminal before starting a new one and it should be fine too.

rhatguy · Post by **rhatguy** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:54 pm

Just a confirmation. I hit the same issue with VTE and PoOky is right. No need to reboot...just close all open terminals and everything works again.