Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:50:10 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd behaviour from bash after recent cvsup and world... Message-ID: <416D2482.2090000@gamersimpact.com> In-Reply-To: <1542.192.168.0.188.1097646528.squirrel@192.168.0.188> References: <1542.192.168.0.188.1097646528.squirrel@192.168.0.188>
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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, >thinking that it was a problem of the recent library changes, but same >thing. I also have /etc/libmap.conf defined as stated in UPDATING. Same >problem with it undefined too. > >Thanks. > > 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. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com
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