Bug#432280: "bash-like" command interface locks up typing long lines?

[Trent Buck]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:28:42PM +1000, Trent Buck wrote:
> I could enter linux, initrd and boot commands and succeeded in booting
> (yay for tab completion!).  However I noticed that typing a line
> longer wider than the screen, e.g.
> 
>     linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/Etch-root ro video=radeonfb:1600x1200
> 
> caused the system to stop updating the screen.  I couldn't see
> anything I typed appearing, so I tried blindly finishing the command
> and pressing Enter.  Nothing appeared to happen so after a couple of
> seconds [...]

I rebooted again, and I cannot reproduce this behaviour.  When typing
long lines, this time they continued onto the next line as in an xterm
running bash.
-- 
Trent Buck
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