On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
>
> > I've seen this when telnetting into the PPC machine from another, but not
> > at the console. As a workaround, issue:
> >
> > exec bash
> >
> > And you should then have a normal shell.
>
> Unbelievable; that fixes it completely! :)
>
> What on earth could be causing this? A race condition in the tty driver
> at the kernel level? Something like that?
>
I don't think it's a race, as I haven't noted any other adverse effects
other than the annoying behavior. I've hit a couple of other odd bash
behaviors in building packages, so it may just be some flakiness in the
release of bash we're using, on PPC. Definitely something to keep an eye
on. It may go away in updates for the next release. I'll try switching to
a different shell and see if it's bash or something else.
Thanks for the kind words. I think we still need to refine the
install/setup a little, but most of the packages are pretty solid.
I beat on my machine pretty hard, building packages over NFS, and haven't
had any problems.
Stew Benedict
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