XTerm & OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

Thomas E. Dickey dickey at herndon4.his.com
Fri Jul 11 00:33:23 EST 2003


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:

> Any version, currently using the latest stable, xterm-179.

There was a Debian bug report last week in this area, but it turned out to
be a bug in bash (I don't know more than that).

>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:
> >
> > > Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
> > > similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
> > > xterm usually.
> >
> > what version of xterm?
> > The only issue that comes to mind is the fix for blinking cursor a few
> > months ago.
> >
> > >
> > > This NEVER occurs in telnet.
> > > The error is completely reproducable when you come across it.
> > > ie: one may just be browsing the filesystem and when you come across this
> > > problem, you can launch another xterm and the EXACT same thing happens
> > > when you try to do it again
> > >
> > > Bug reports on similiar issues seem to be sparse and people I know never
> > > seem to have the problem, perhaps they use ssh from a windows machine.
> > >
> > > I was wondering what causes this, and is there a way to fix it?
> > >
> >
> > --
> > T.E.Dickey <dickey at herndon4.his.com>
> > http://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://invisible-island.net
> >
>

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