Bug#631801: gnome-terminal: *** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap'

[Pawel Tecza]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.0.1-1
Severity: important

Hello,

Today I've upgraded my laptop which runs on Debian testing and now I
have a serious problem with using gnome-terminal. It seems that I can
use only one tab. When I try to open next tab(s), then I can see the
following error message:

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

Of course such tab is useless...

Yes, it's true that gnome-terminal depends on libvte-2.90-9 package,
but I believe that a reason of the problem is missing libvte9 package.
I can see in my /var/log/aptitude file that package has been removed
today by aptitute, because it was unused... When I installed libvte9
again and restarted gnome-terminal, then the issue went out.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data           3.0.1-1    Data files for the GNOME
terminal 
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas     3.0.1-1    GSettings deskop-wide
schemas
ii  libatk1.0-0                   2.0.0-1    The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.13-7     Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.32.4-1   GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.23.3-3   GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.6-1   The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.0.10-1   GTK+ graphical user
interface libr
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.7-2  X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.3-6   Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.0-2  X11 Session Management
library
ii  libvte-2.90-9                 1:0.28.1-1 Terminal emulator widget
for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.4.3-2  X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                     1.6.4-3         userspace virtual
filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                     2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information