reset not working like 70% of the time

[Martin S. Weber]

On 2017-01-25 11:15:17, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > does anyone suffer from this too ? Right now (and for several last
> > years) a 100% decent way to reset a terminal session (for instance,
> > after a connection reset, after acidentally displaying a binary file
> > with symbols that are treated as terminal control sequence, after
> > breaking a cu session, etc) is to launch midnight commander and then
> > quit from it. And the reset is working like in 30% of cases only.
> [...]
> > Am I the only person seeing this ?
> 
> I had some cases in the past where xterm was hanging, too -- but
> not with *that* high rate of problems.
> 
> Most of the times, xterm's Full Reset options works fine.
> 
> The question is: how to debug that... ?

Use script(1) to record an offending session, including the reset. 
Then replay with script or cat or ... 

Regards,
-Martin