Re: Problems with bash
Matthew Guenther wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem which looks to be a bug in bash and I was wondering if I
> could get a confirmation/solution to my problem. I recently upgraded to the
> potato version of bash and now whenever I type a backspace on a blank line the
> shell crashes (logs out if on the console, quits an xterm). There have also
> been various strange crashes when using filename completion. If I change the
> shell to csh or tcsh and try the same things nothing happens.
>
> The system is partially potato, but I didn't get any errors about missed
> dependencies when I installed the new bash. Anyone have any idea what's going
> on?
>
> MBG
>
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I got exactly the same problem with the potato version. My system is
already glibc2.1
just a few packages are not upgraded. I installed it with apt-get and
there were no problems about dependencies.
After downgrading to the slink version everythink works fine again.
dennis
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