[ale] X hangs at start

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 21 March 2003 12:03 pm, Chris Fowler wrote:
> >tty > /dev/null && stty -ixon -ixoff
>
> Why would you want to send the output of the tty command to /dev/null.
> All it does is disply the controlling ttyname to STDOUT.

But it returns an error if there is no controlling tty, in which case I 
don't run the stty command.  I have no interest in the output so I send it 
to /dev/null

> The only thing I can say, would be that maybe stty was blocking.   But
> are you haning on the stty execution.  The only reason I could see to
> use this command would be over serial terminals.

I guess I should break that into a longer script to see where it is 
hanging.
>
> I believe the only benefit of hagin swflow on a vt is to allow the user
> to use ^s and ^q to temporarily tell the vt driver to stop sending
> output.  ^q will turn flow back on.

And that's very annoying, so I disable it.  I want to be able to type ^s 
and ^q in my terminals.

Michael

> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 11:35, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > At either the Jan or Feb ALE Central meeting I asked if anyone could
> > explain why my .Xclients script would hang before it did anything.  I
> > now have additional information, but I still don't understand.  I'm
> > hoping someone can shed some light.
> >
> > It turns out that it was hanging in my .bashrc file.  For several
> > years I've had these lines in my .bashrc:
> > 	# turn off XON/XOFF, but only for a tty
> > 	tty > /dev/null && stty -ixon -ixoff
> > I've been using RedHat 8.0 for several months, but after upgrading to
> > KDE 3.1 (and now 3.1.1) that line stopped working.  In fact, it would
> > hang forever when my .Xclients started running after startx.
> >
> > Now, I rarely log out or reboot, and I'm sure I ugraded other parts of
> > my system before I did the kde.  It doesn't make sense that a KDE
> > upgrade would break things, so I'm guessing it isn't a KDE problem. 
> > Some other part of the system is hanging me up.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Puzzled,
> >
> > Michael
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