Ben,
What type of tty is freezing? (console, telnet, xterm, etc.)
I had some problems with vi freezing, and otherwise acting
strangely from a telnet session. Since my telnet client
emulates a vt100 terminal, the solution was to do:
$ export TERM=vt100
This assumes bash shell (the linux default). Without the
export command, bash assumes 'TERM=ansi' (on my system,
anyway). If you want to check what type of terminal bash
thinks you are on, do:
$env (for 'environment')
HTH,
-David
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> Sent: Monday, October 19, 1998 10:19 AM
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> Subject: frozen tty with vi
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> Sometimes when I use vi, the terminal freezes. I don't know what it is I
> type to make this happen, except usually it's been something I'd intended
> for another terminal: a keyboard fumble. I'm still diagnosing what causes
> this to happen, but I thought somebody may recognize the symptoms.
> Pressing Esc, :, or ^c does nothing. Killing the bash process from
> another terminal is the only thing I've found to free the terminal;
> killing vim leaves it frozen.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ben Taylor
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