On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/24/2017 09:14 AM, David Wright wrote: >> >> On Tue 24 Oct 2017 at 08:29:50 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: >>> >>> On 2017-10-24 at 08:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 07:31:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >>>> >>>>>> clear_console clears your console if this is possible. It looks in >>>>>> the >>>>> >>>>> That program is shipped as part of bash, so it looks as if this might >>>>> actually be considered a bash bug. I'd see about reporting it there, >>>>> yes >>>>> - either in Debian or upstream. >>>> >>>> Definitely not upstream. >>>> >>>> wooledg:/usr/src/bash$ tar xzf bash-4.3.30.tar.gz >>>> wooledg:/usr/src/bash$ cd bash-4.3.30 >>>> wooledg:/usr/src/bash/bash-4.3.30$ grep -ri clear_console . >>>> wooledg:/usr/src/bash/bash-4.3.30$ >>>> >>>> I'd never even heard of it until now. It's definitely a Debian add-on. >>> >>> Thanks. I hadn't considered checking that way, but it's good to have >>> this confirmed. >> >> I looked at my ~/.bash_logout and found I had recrafted it >> long enough ago to forget doing it, just after starting to >> use jessie. >> >> It uses reset, and I often type reset myself, at times like >> when the ssh pipe breaks during emacs -nw which throws you back >> to a local bash prompt but with no visible cursor and a broken >> command history recall. >> >> Cheers, >> David. >> > That fixed it here. I noticed this problem a few months ago, but never > tracked down the source. About the only time anyone actually logs out of a > terminal session on this box is if I need to reboot (such as for a new > kernel). This is an annoyance due to causing an unclean shutdown, but > nothing more. My workaround had been to shut down the X session on vt01 > first, then the other two. But this is better. I replaced clear_console > with a call to reset and the problem went away. I shut down my dfaughter's > X session and logged her out. My X session on vt01 is still up and running.
Does Matthias K. (maintainer of bash for Debian) know about this thread? I'm assuming he would be the one to fix it.
