markm@CSE.OGI.EDU (Mark Morrissey) (01/05/90)
Hello,
I recently (1/3/90) took a copy of bash 1.04 from prep.ai.mit.edu and
installed it on my Sun4. The Sun is running OS 4.0.1 with tty patches
so it is roughly equivalent to OS 4.0.3. Bash compiled without a glitch.
However, I have a problem which occasionally asserts itself when I
invoke bash. When I enter bash, I get the "bash$ " prompt and then the
shell hangs. No input is accepted (apparantly, read on) nor do chareacters
which are typed at the keyboard echoed on the screen. The first time this
happened (which was, incidentally the first time I invoked bash), I blindly
typed "lots" of characters and then a message (apologies, I forgot what
it said exactly and did not write it down :-( ) appeared asking if I wanted
to accept the command expansion (I am pretty sure that this is what it
said, but I could be slightly off). This message has not appeared since then.
Also, I have invoked the shell many (over 50) times and have had hangs about
5 or 6 times. Each time I have to 'kill -9' the process to get things back.
I even had the shell set up to be my default shell and it worked quite
well except that it would not execute my dot files (probably a user error
on my part) at startup and they had to be sourced by hand.
I will try to pull together a better bug report, but wanted to get something
off asap in case it has already been reported and fixed (thus saving me time
and effort).
Please do not send mail to me by using the mail reply option - I am sending
this from a machine which has an internet connection. My home email address is
listed in my signature. Note: ogicse is also ogi.cse.edu (from whence I am
sending this).
later,
-mark
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