bash bug on vbox?

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 05:56:10PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On May 11, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
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> > Does it happen with any kind of long output like that?
> > less /var/log/messages , that kind of thing.
> 
> Does not occur with less /var/log/messages.
> 
> Does not occur with cat /var/log/messages | more.
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> Does not occur with fdisk -l | more.
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> Maybe it's a parted bug?

There could be some "funny" characters in an output of parted most
likely in a disk identification ("Model:").  Either as a result of a
parted bug, or a disk playing fast-and-loose, or both.  You can
possibly check with 'parted -l | cat -v'.

If you are getting stuck in a gnome-terminal then on a menubar under
"Terminal" you should have "Reset" and/or "Reset and Clear".  If
something like that is not available then typing  in blind 'reset'
followed by 'ctrl-J' most likely will clear the condition.  If that
really helps then what you see is not a responsibility of bash.

   Michal