Reproduced on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797387
Title: bash crashes on PS1 set, wait, press enter, Ctrl-C, enter Status in bash package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Reproducible on xubuntu 16.04 x86_64 (reproduced on two machines I tried). Steps to reproduce: export PS1="\e[1;32m\u@$HOSTNAME \t \$()\e[1;36m\$(sleep 1)\e[m\n\w>" Press enter wait Press enter Ctrl-C Press enter bash will crash. My PS1 line calls (and forks) a little shell script to report a status I want to see. It seems to be specific to bash on 16.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1797387/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp