Re: Bug#735202: speakup crashes debian

[Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com>]

Hi,

this may not be the same bug, but there has been a long-standing Speakup 
bug that locks up the machine.  I've seen it as early as Squeeze but it 
may have been there earlier (I don't remember).

Whether or not it crashes seems to depend on your environment at the 
time.  Pasting to a regular bash prompt and into most applications works 
just fine.  It seems to happen when working in more primitive environments 
with no readline.

Here's a sure-fire way to reproduce it:

1.  cut anything to the clipboard.

2.  Run the command:

cat

This should open stdin for input.

3.  Paste.

4. Crash!

AFAIK, this locks the kernel and only a power cycle will fix it.

As noted previously, this only affects local sessions - even running an 
ssh to localhost and doing the above will not reproduce it.

I've observed on several machines running both Squeeze and Wheezy.

Geoff.