id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 3121 Subshell/Command line prompt is empty/missing z0rc andrew_b "See attached screenshot. The issue persist with TERM=(xterm|screen).*. Tested with konsole and xterm both on current Debian Sid, Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.10. Tested with bash and zsh. The issue doesn't exists with 'linux' terminal (without xorg, plain console at Ctrl+Alt+F1) {{{ mc -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.11 Built with GLib 2.36.4 Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database With builtin Editor With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, fish Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64; }}} I bisected issue to: {{{ e35f044ccdd41922f925c99e6d50930ea8c7c47e is the first bad commit commit e35f044ccdd41922f925c99e6d50930ea8c7c47e Author: Andrew Borodin Date: Tue Jan 1 19:53:11 2013 +0400 (subshell_prompt): changed to GString. (read_subshell_prompt): refactoring to ret rid of low-level memory reallocation. Signed-off-by: Andrew Borodin }}} " defect closed major 4.8.30 mc-core 4.8.28 fixed subshell egmont@… congest aurrak reagle tonal.promsoft@… merged committed-master