Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

[Alex Thorne <lexiconifernelius@gmail.com>]

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I have also experienced this intermittently with bash. Running *reset *returns
the shell to normal for me. Echo is also set on for me, but will check if
this has changed next time I experience the issue.

On 6 July 2015 at 20:07, »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:18:18 +0300
> Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:01 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My bash problem started a few weeks ago but I can't remember when.
> > > This problem is intermittent and hard to reproduce.  I'm seeing it
> > > maybe less than ten times per day but often enough to be really
> > > annoying.
> > >
> > > This is the problem:  occasionally bash gets in a state where it
> > > stops echoing the characters I type.  The commands I type continue
> > > to work properly and I can see the output from them but I can't see
> > > the commands on the screen as I type them.
> > >
> > > So far I've seen this problem start *after* some bash command has
> > > finished executing, e.g. after doing 'git diff'.  It never happens
> > > when I open a new xterm, before I run a command.
> > >
> > > I emerged app-shells/sash and I don't see the problem there, so I
> > > think this is a bash problem, but I'm just guessing.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > What's the output of 'stty -a'? Is the 'echo' attribute on, 'echo', or
> > off, '-echo'?
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> I have the same symptoms as walt (except less often, probably because
> I'm typing in bash less often).  The echo attribute is on for me.
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> I think (but am not certain) the problem started for me when I
> updated bash and readline following this stabilization:
> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548756>
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> In case it matters (and since I am using USE="-*"), here are my flags
> for those two packages.
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> bash: nls readline -afs -bashlogger -examples -mem-scramble -net
>  -plugins -vanilla
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> sys-libs/readline: -static-libs ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32"
>  ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32"
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