From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f9QHYNJ29805 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:34:23 -0700 Received: from t111.niisi.ras.ru (t111.niisi.ras.ru [193.232.173.111]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9QHYJ029802 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:34:20 -0700 Received: from t06.niisi.ras.ru (t06.niisi.ras.ru [193.232.173.6]) by t111.niisi.ras.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA00972; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:34:08 +0300 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by t06.niisi.ras.ru (8.7.6/8.7.3) with UUCP id VAA00854; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:23:29 +0300 Received: from niisi.msk.ru (t34 [193.232.173.34]) by niisi.msk.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09739; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:29:08 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <3BD99DAC.EB762713@niisi.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:30:20 +0400 From: "Gleb O. Raiko" Organization: NIISI RAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wayne Gowcher CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Backspace on Virtual Console causes oops References: <20011026161259.54925.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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.