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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else having a problem with bash?
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:19:12
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMU0b4v-wmdD390Ag5pxg8=Afe7kyY+ZZtkPWRDHMfxqUg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Anyone else having a problem with bash? by walt
1 On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:01 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > My bash problem started a few weeks ago but I can't remember when.
3 > This problem is intermittent and hard to reproduce. I'm seeing it
4 > maybe less than ten times per day but often enough to be really
5 > annoying.
6 >
7 > This is the problem: occasionally bash gets in a state where it stops
8 > echoing the characters I type. The commands I type continue to work
9 > properly and I can see the output from them but I can't see the commands
10 > on the screen as I type them.
11 >
12 > So far I've seen this problem start *after* some bash command has
13 > finished executing, e.g. after doing 'git diff'. It never happens when
14 > I open a new xterm, before I run a command.
15 >
16 > I emerged app-shells/sash and I don't see the problem there, so I think
17 > this is a bash problem, but I'm just guessing.
18 >
19 > Any ideas?
20 >
21 >
22 >
23
24 What's the output of 'stty -a'? Is the 'echo' attribute on, 'echo', or
25 off, '-echo'?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash? "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash? walt <w41ter@×××××.com>