Bug#428502: gnome-terminal: recently typed characters sometimes don't appear immediately

[joshua at nirmalvihar.info]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.18.0-1
Severity: normal

This looks like the kind of buffering problem that would happen if bash 
didn't call fflush internally. Especially when I'm entering text using 
readline, sometimes the characters don't appear immediately but if I 
type another character then the previous characters appear (they are not 
lost). I have seen the same problem with bash and with psql so the bug 
might be in readline or in gnome-terminal. Maybe you have some insight?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1-b3 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.16.3-1   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data         2.18.0-1     Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.18.0-2     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.18.0-2     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.5-9+b1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.18.0.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.0-4    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.12-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.18.0-4     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.18.1-1     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.18.1-2   GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.10.7-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.16.4-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.10-3       lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.9-1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                     1:0.16.1-1   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.2-1    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-13    A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.18.0-1   Help browser for GNOME 2

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