Matthew Guenther wrote: > > I'm having a problem which looks to be a bug in bash and I was wondering if I > could get a confirmation/solution to my problem. I recently upgraded to the > potato version of bash and now whenever I type a backspace on a blank line the > shell crashes (logs out if on the console, quits an xterm). There have also > been various strange crashes when using filename completion. If I change the > shell to csh or tcsh and try the same things nothing happens. > > The system is partially potato, but I didn't get any errors about missed > dependencies when I installed the new bash. Anyone have any idea what's going > on? > > MBG > > -- > "Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than > that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, > that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness > itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by > staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here." > -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
I got exactly the same problem with the potato version. My system is already glibc2.1 just a few packages are not upgraded. I installed it with apt-get and there were no problems about dependencies. After downgrading to the slink version everythink works fine again. dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #