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

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:01:19PM +1000, Trent Buck wrote:
> 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.

I'm afraid we can't really debug it unless someone finds an accurate way to
reproduce it.  Perhaps you did something in the first try that you didn't in
the second one?  Can you get it to happen again?

Btw, you might find it easier to use the CD image in grub-rescue-pc for that
(assuming the bug is not dependant on your hardware).

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