On Tue, 14 May 2019, Samuel Sieb wrote:

> On 5/14/19 3:00 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >    i'm finally annoyed enough about this to just ask ... on a regular
> > basis, i mistype a command and (predictably) get:
> >
> >    bash: xxx: command not found...
> >
> > but, quite often, rather than getting a bash prompt back immediately,
> > there is a loooooooong pause, as i wait, and wait, and wait for a new
> > prompt, finally running out of patience and breaking with ^C to get a
> > new prompt.
> >
> >    what in the name of mutt is bash doing all that time? if there's no
> > such command, why the long pause in giving me a new prompt?
>
> If you have "PackageKit-command-not-found" installed, then it's trying to find
> you a package to install to give you that command.  Try running a command that
> could exist, but you don't have installed.  For example, "cowsay". :-)
> (Unless you do have that installed.)

  ah, got it, thanks.

rday

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