On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 04:00:57PM +0200, Mike Jonkmans wrote: > uname output: Linux sint 4.15.0-54-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 24 10:55:24 > UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(Why are you reporting problems on an Ubuntu system on a debian.org mailing list?) > Repeat-By: > : | : | : ## immediately finishes > sleep 10 & > : | : | : ## this hangs (^C, ^\, ^Z do not help) until the sleep > finishes I cannot reproduce this. I tried bash 4.4 on Debian 10 (self-built), the standard bash 4.4 package (version 4.4-5) on Debian 9, and the standard bash 5.0 package (version 5.0-4) on Debian 10. You might want to try running a new instance of bash with --norc --noprofile to remove any dot file settings from the picture.
