The problem seems to have gone away! Now, as before, I was running 'bundle --help' in xfce-terminal. I have also tried at the console, but I cannot reproduce it any more in either environment.
At the time I was also experiencing lots of strange freeze-ups in which applications and console sessions would not launch and the GUI would misbehave and I would have to force a shutdown from the power button. I believe this misbehaviour was connected to a backup was doing to an NTFS volume. I wonder if this might be related? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1209357 Title: Sometimes 'q' doesn't work to quit less To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/less/+bug/1209357/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs