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

[Michael Simms]

well diagnosed! that was impressive!

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 22:39 +0100, Danny King wrote:
> 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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