On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:01 PM, walt <w41...@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'?