Bug#801770: devscripts: rmadison does not run properly but instead has a mishmash of rubbish

[Sharon Kimble]

"Adam D. Barratt" <adam at adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:

> On 2015-10-15 7:35, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> [...]
>>> On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 18:32 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>>> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam at adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> [...]
>>>> >> rmadison emacs24
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>>>> >>
>>>> >> This is on a fresh install of jessie yesterday, 64bit. I've tried upgrading to
>>>> >> the version of devscripts in testing, but it makes no difference, still the
>>>> >> same mishmash.
> [...]
>>>> > I'm unable to reproduce this:
> [...]
>> Is it possible that I have a corrupted font which is causing the
>> mish-mash? Do you know the font that "rmadison" uses please?
>
> I guess it's possible. rmadison won't be using any particular font of its own accord though, it's just writing output to
> the console.
>
I've just retried rmadison on my console of choice, "lxterminal", and
rmadison is working perfectly. Its possible that my multiple reboots
yesterday cleared the problem, so could you please close my bug report?
Thanks, and sorry for the noise, in future, I'll try a reboot to see if
it closes any problem!

Thanks
Sharon.
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