# Reproducible? Tried once, takes about an hour. This was enough to reproduce the bug once within about one hour :
open a terminal, type: script then on the shell prompt type: yes The 'yes' command produces as intended an infinite stream of lines with the character 'y'. After about one hour, the bug happened. Only tried once so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558236 Title: /usr/bin/script freezes and eats all CPU, has to be killed, which kills shell and programs inside To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1558236/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs