From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g46N7jwJ030468 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 16:07:45 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g46N7jUs030467 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 2002 16:07:45 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g46N7ewJ030460 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 16:07:40 -0700 Received: from ocean.lucon.org ([12.234.143.38]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020506230654.FDUX4412.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@ocean.lucon.org>; Mon, 6 May 2002 23:06:54 +0000 Received: by ocean.lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0467B125C0; Mon, 6 May 2002 16:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:06:51 -0700 From: "H . J . Lu" To: Hartvig Ekner Cc: "Kevin D. Kissell" , Kjeld Borch Egevang , linux-mips mailing list Subject: Re: zsh on console Message-ID: <20020506160651.A310@lucon.org> References: <20020506121606.B28872@lucon.org> <200205062206.g46M6ge17977@coplin09.mips.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200205062206.g46M6ge17977@coplin09.mips.com>; from hartvige@mips.com on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:06:42AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:06:42AM +0200, Hartvig Ekner wrote: > H . J . Lu writes: > > > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 02:57:28PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > > > > When I run zsh on the console (serial interface) the process hangs. I can > > > > login with /bin/bash, but when I start /bin/zsh it waits forever. I can > > > > interrupt the process and regain control. > > > > > > > > It's only related to the console. If I login with telnet it works just > > > > fine. > > > > > > > > Any idea, what could be wrong? > > > > > > I don't know what it would be specifically, but having > > > dealt with similar problems on other Unix systems, > > > it's proably the case that zsh uses a particular tty > > > mode that isn't correctly supported by the serial > > > console driver, either due to a bug in the driver or > > > due to a conflict with some other feature enabled > > > on the console port. The next step to take would > > > be to run "stty -all" under /bin/bash and under > > > /bin/zsh on a telnet session, and compare the > > > outputs. > > > > That sounds like a zsh bug I fixed. Please try zsh 3.0.8-8.1 in my RedHat 7.1 > > port and let me know if it doesn't work for you. > > You only have the source RPM on OSS? I didn't add cross compile support for zsh. You have to compile it natively. > I believe we compiled from another SRC RPM: zsh-4.0.4-5.src.rpm. zsh-4.0.4-5 will be in my RedHat 7.3 port. > > What was your fix? > zsh-3.0.8-open.patch is in baseline.tar.bz2. H.J.