Re: Bug#735202: speakup crashes debian
If I run cpanp on this amd64 Athelon k8 machine, I hear readline is
enabled. If some other readline package or packages need installing so
bash uses readline automatically and those packages aren't on this machine
and working I think those packages need to be made speakup dependencies
for future versions of speakup. On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Geoff Shang wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
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