On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think there > way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and Xterm in a X > session on another machine. I may not have sound enabled... not sure > right now. > > Those two appear to be the only keys effected. Upper case E works > fine and the uppercase char (?) above `/' works fine. > > If I press Ctrl-v and then the `e' if works... ditto for `/'. >
Sounds to me like a problem with readline. Is your /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc per chance corrupted? You can try re-installing readline and/or baselayout (baselayout is responsible for /etc/inputrc). Hope that helps, W -- "Do you all understand? At this point I'll settle for quiet acquiescence." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 768 days, 21:22
