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Terminal background goes red
Hi,
I'm having my first experiences with a BSD and something is puzzeling me: Using OpenBSD 4.6 in virtualbox for the time being, if I switch terminals a couple of times, the entire background of all terminals changes color from black to red. Is this some sort of error sign? What does it mean? I can't for the life of me find the meaning of this. Googling only results in guides on how to change prompt colors... Best regards, Patrick |
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I have neither seen nor heard about this. It probably is VirtualBox related
If you can reproduce this on 'real hardware' we can guide you how to file a bug report.
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QEMU and VirtualBox do share a history, which could explain the issue, and due to emulation bugs some sort of erroneous "bit shift" could be happening that changes the background colour.
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That's interesting. It does also occur when I start and halt X11, but just switching through terminals without ever starting X11 already does the trick.
I was planning on trying it on real hardware soon anyway. Until then VirtualBox works well enough for me to get a little more familiar with the system. Thanks for your quick answers! Here's a before-after screenshot just for the sake of completeness. I just have to boot, press [CTRL]+[ALT]+[F1-3] a couple of times...and voilà: |
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Yeah the same happened to me,
I thought I was just going slightly mad. I kinda like the color |
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