[arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

[Jordan Windsor]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:25 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/16/2010 09:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It
>> won't
>> cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if
>> there is
>> some archain Arch notice on this I apologize, I've missed it.
>>
>> This is easy to test. Just to 'ping anywhere' and then try and kill it
>> with
>> ctrl+c. I have to open another terminal and either 'killall ping' or kill
>> the
>> pid to get the thing to stop. Same thing happens if I mistype a cli and
>> need to
>> cancel the execution (like if I mistype a ' instead of a " and the script
>> continues on a new line)
>>
>> What's up with this?
>>
>
> OK I've narrowed it down to gnome-terminal. If I use konsole (kde3 or kde4)
> ctrl+c works just fine.
>
> Can anyone else try in gnome-terminal and see if ctrl+c is broken for you?
> Just type 'ping whatever' and then try to kill ping with crtl+c. I can't and
> that's a problem.
>
> I'm using using gnome-terminal 2.30.2-1
>
>
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Works here, gnome-terminal 2.30.2-1