[Nottingham] Strage X / terminal bug: restarts whenever I press tab

[Danny King]

Peter you are a genius! It must have been the bell. After disabling
the system bell in /etc/inputrc it has stopped crashing, so that's
great news thanks! For the record I am running bash and was running as
an ordinary user.

Any ideas as to why the bell might cause X to crash? (it'd be nice to
be able to enable it again, although I can live without it)

Thanks again!

2008/9/15 Peter Chang <Peter.Chang at nottingham.ac.uk>:
>
> Danny,
>
> That's a very strange problem. If it happens in both gnome-terminal and
> xterm then it may be a shell problem. Are you running as root or an
> ordinary user? Do you run bash? Try looking at the inputrc file (either in
> /etc or ~/). Otherwise it could be a problem with the alert/visible
> bell...
>
> Peter
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