bad gnome-terminal or bad script?

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Marc Williams wrote:

>On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:53:14 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
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>>>In an FC3 gnome-terminal, I try to run the following script:
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>>>#!/usr/bin/expect --
>>>spawn ssh 192.168.0.9
>>>expect "word: "
>>>send "password\r"
>>>expect "]$ "
>>>interact
>>>----------------------
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>>>I don't think it's possible to get any simpler than that.  It completes
>>>successfully and everything seems to be just fine.  Until I attempt to
>>>run a command in the newly spawned ssh session that generates a fair
>>>amount of output such as "ls -la /usr/bin" or cat'ing a larger text
>>>file.  The output of such a command starts off like normal but before it
>>>finishes, the output gets "stuck", for lack of a better word.  A few
>>>screenfuls of output go by and then it simply stops in it's tracks.  The
>>>output jiggles around a bit in the term window but the output doesn't
>>>finish.  The cursor seems stuck in place.  I can't Ctrl-c out of it
>>>either but rather I have to manually kill it.
>>>
>>>Does this seem like a gnome-terminal problem or a script problem?
>>>Thanks!
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>>Ive seen this in VC too, so that rules out gnome-terminal, however always
>>with SSH, so maybe this is rather an SSH problem.
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>I just tried the same script with telnet instead of SSH.  The exact same
>thing happens so it's not an SSH thing.
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>I don't know what a VC is that you mentioned but when I run the script
>from a console, it behaves beautifully with none of the bad behavior I
>described earlier.  So from my perspective, it still could be a
>gnome-terminal issue.  But I suppose it could be an environment thing or
>maybe even a desktop or Gnome problem.
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>I'm just grasping at straws and hoping for suggestions.
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By VC I meant system terminal... I had seen the issue there, but since 
you don't... Then I couldn't say.