Bug#718399: gnome-terminal: auto-scrolling hangs sometimes

[Matthieu Imbert]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.8.3-1
Severity: normal

Since the upgrade to this version I noticed in certain situations 
that the auto-srolling hangs.

This occured with a gnome-terminal configured with a huge 
scrolling buffer (50000 lines), a few tabs opened, and a program 
generating a lot of output on one of the tabs. Then, when 
switching alternatively between the gnome terminal window and 
another window, sometimes when the gnome-terminal window is 
displayed, the scrolling is stopped (though, in the background, 
the program is still producing output). the page down key does 
nothing, one has to scroll up and then down to be able to get back 
the regular auto-scrolling

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.16.1-1
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-1
ii  gnome-terminal-data                          3.8.3-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.4.2-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.8.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.17-7
ii  libdconf1                                    0.16.1-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.36.3-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.8.2-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libuuid1                                     2.20.1-5.5
ii  libvte-2.90-9                                1:0.34.6-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.0-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.6.12-1
ii  gvfs      1.16.3-1
ii  yelp      3.8.1-2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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