Terminal output scrolling is gone (Headless 11.10 Server, Upgraded from 10.10)
The behaviour you describe sounds like your terminal was stuck in the full screen "cursor addressing" mode used by tools like less
and vi
.
The mode can become stuck if those programs do not exit cleanly. For instance, if you kill -9
them, or are running them through an ssh
session that disconnects. You can exit this terminal mode by running the following command:
tput rmcup
Or just try browsing a file with less
and quit as normal. You should then have access to your scrollback and the contents of the screen when cursor addressing mode was entered.
If tput rmcup
does not work, try
tput reset
instead.
Just reset
alone worked for me.