Subject: emacs 23 in ubuntu 10.04 gnu linux: black lines overwrite text!

From: Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:12:22 -0400

To: [email-masked]
Subject: 23.1; emacs 23 in ubuntu gnu linux: black lines overwrite text!
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at starting up emacs 23, black lines are overwriting the text in text
buffers,
rendering it impossible to use emacs. emacs do not crash.
Sometimes, the error do not occur and I can use emacs, but it is difficult
to describe exactly under which circumstances it occur and not.
I reported the problem on the ubuntu help mailing list, and got one
response confirming the problem. at the link
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/tmpdownloads/Emacs23-Lucid.png
there is a screenshot showing the problem.

this is ubuntu 10.04, with the official emacs from ubuntu.

kjetil brinchmann halvorsen
[email-masked]

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
 of 2010-03-29 on rothera, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu'
'--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
'--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g
-O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  display-battery-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-x r e p o r t
- e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pspp.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)...done
enabling speedbar support
Loading cua-base...done
Loading battery...done
Loading time...done
Loading autorevert...done
Loading paren...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

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