Subject: Losing prompts
To: NetBSD (port-68kMac) Mailing list <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Christopher P. Gill <cpg@scs.howard.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/09/1999 16:57:22
Hello all,
	I've noticed a minor bug in NetBSD 1.4, GENERIC kenel.  I
occasionally will get no prompt, i.e., it will be suppressed.  I'll just
get the carriage-return that I typed, on a blank line.

This would occasionally happen, and I would figure that my machine was
busy, but I discovered that this isn't so.  If I type a command, it gets
executed just as though it were at a prompt, and just as soon.  If the
prompt doesn't show up, a second tap on the [RETURN] key will usually
produce a prompt as usual. 

Today it hapened as I connected via telnet.  Although I got the
"NetBSD/mac68k..." line, I got no "login:" prompt below, and I thought
that my machine was hung up.  After waiting for a while, I typed in my
username anyway, and after hitting RETURN was rewarded with the
"Password:" prompt, after which things proceeded normally. 

Has anyone else noticed this?  I didn't see anything about it in the
FAQ.  I'm running on a Quadra 800 40/500+520.


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