Odd behaviour from bash after recent cvsup and world...

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Wed Oct 13 06:00:56 PDT 2004


Ryan Sommers said:

> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>
>>I just cvsuped and did a full world make/install/mergemaster around 2
>>hours ago. The system comes up fine, and everything seems to work fine so
>>far, except for bash (which is my default shell). I can not see the
>>characters i am typing when in bash, hitting enter redisplays the prompt
>>on the same line. Ctrl-L will not clear the screen, untill i hit enter
>>afterwards. Commands do work, but the screen handling aspect of it is
>>wacky, almost like a terminal emulation problem (im using vt100 via
>>SecureCRT). Csh and sh work fine. I have tried reinstalling from ports,
>>
> This is due to PHK's recent breakage of the syscons driver. When you get
> to a prompt type 'stty echo' and all will be well. He announced this
> yesterday but I guess you missed it. This is part of a bigger cleanup he
> is doing on our tty drivers. Hang in there for now, I'm sure it will be
> unbroken soon.

Ah, no problem, its not a big deal. I did miss it, was it a HEADSUP?




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