Am 06.07.2015 um 19:01 schrieb walt: > 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?
As a wild guess into the blue, it could be related to readline. As I see gentoo's bash uses the standalone readline from coreutils, while the original bash source maintains an own trimmed version of readline.. just a thought ~frukto
