If I run cpanp on this amd64 Athelon k8 machine, I hear readline is enabled. If some other readline package or packages need installing so bash uses readline automatically and those packages aren't on this machine and working I think those packages need to be made speakup dependencies for future versions of speakup. On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi, > > this may not be the same bug, but there has been a long-standing Speakup bug > that locks up the machine. I've seen it as early as Squeeze but it may have > been there earlier (I don't remember). > > Whether or not it crashes seems to depend on your environment at the time. > Pasting to a regular bash prompt and into most applications works just fine. > It seems to happen when working in more primitive environments with no > readline. > > Here's a sure-fire way to reproduce it: > > 1. cut anything to the clipboard. > > 2. Run the command: > > cat > > This should open stdin for input. > > 3. Paste. > > 4. Crash! > > AFAIK, this locks the kernel and only a power cycle will fix it. > > As noted previously, this only affects local sessions - even running an ssh to > localhost and doing the above will not reproduce it. > > I've observed on several machines running both Squeeze and Wheezy. > > Geoff. > > > jude <jdash...@shellworld.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
