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From: "Gleb O. Raiko" <raiko@niisi.msk.ru>
To: Wayne Gowcher <wgowcher@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Backspace on Virtual Console causes oops
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:30:20 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD99DAC.EB762713@niisi.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011026161259.54925.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com

Wayne Gowcher wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I am having a problem with the backspace key on a
> virtual terminal on a 2.4.2 kernel. If I hit backspace
> when there is input at the command line - no problem
> it deletes the character before the cursor.
> But if I press backspace when there are no characters
> at the command prompt, the kernel throws an oops. The
> process causing the oops is Bash.
> Note, on the Serial console, backspace works fine all
> the time.
> 
> Has anyone ever seen anything like this ? If you have
> how did you solve it ?
> 

Guess 1: You've got PC UARTs and drivers/char/serial.c
Guess 2: TAB TAB in bash causes the oops too.
Guess 3: You didn't change famous beep function in the driver.


Regards,
Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-26 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-19  1:57 Strange behavior of serial console under 2.4.9 H . J . Lu
2001-10-19  2:11 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-10-19  2:11   ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-10-19  2:40   ` H . J . Lu
2001-10-19 13:26     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-10-19 13:54       ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-10-19 13:54         ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-10-19 15:47       ` Ralf Baechle
2001-10-26 16:12       ` Backspace on Virtual Console causes oops Wayne Gowcher
2001-10-26 17:30         ` Gleb O. Raiko [this message]
2001-10-26 18:37           ` Wayne Gowcher
2001-10-29  8:26             ` Gleb O. Raiko
2001-10-29 18:21               ` James Simmons
2001-10-26 18:05         ` Pete Popov
2001-10-26 18:11           ` James Simmons
2001-11-13 20:09         ` ld error " linking PIC files with non-PIC files " Wayne Gowcher
2001-11-14  0:18           ` Ralf Baechle
     [not found]             ` <000a01c170d0$e8662000$101d690a@huawei.com>
2001-11-19  9:05               ` Ralf Baechle
2001-10-19 16:53 ` Strange behavior of serial console under 2.4.9 Jun Sun
2001-10-19 17:10   ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-10-19 17:10     ` Bradley D. LaRonde

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