From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12663 invoked from network); 16 Aug 1999 21:25:10 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Aug 1999 21:25:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 846 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 1999 21:24:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2476 Received: (qmail 831 invoked from network); 16 Aug 1999 21:24:51 -0000 Sender: andrewg@hornet.am.qub.ac.uk Message-ID: <37B8819C.D1CDB154@earthling.net> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:24:44 +0000 From: Andrew Gallagher Organization: QUB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zsh Users Subject: strange hanging behaviour Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi there, I have been using zsh version 3.0.5 for a long time and it has never given me trouble until now. On one particular Linux (Red Hat 5.0, 2.0.36 kernel) machine it has started to exhibit strange behaviour for no immediately apparent reason. When my .zlogin asks me what terminal I am using it accepts input properly, but once at the prompt I can only type one or two characters before the shell input hangs. If I hit return _twice_ then the shell gloops up the character buffer, does what I typed and continues, but then hangs once again when I start typing the next command. This behaviour only happens in zsh - if I run ksh or tcsh (but not another zsh) from within my misbehaving zsh, everything works fine, only to break again once I exit and get back out into zsh. I have removed all my dotfiles to no avail. The system config files are distribution. Login method (telnet, ssh, etc.) makes no difference. Anyone got any ideas? By the way, this all started on the day of the eclipse. Spooky eh? -- Andrew Gallagher Dept. of Applied Maths Queen's University of Belfast http://members.tripod.com/~AndrewGallagher/id.html