bad gnome-terminal or bad script?

[Marc Williams]

Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Marc Williams wrote:
>>
>>>> In an FC3 gnome-terminal, I try to run the following script:
>>>> ----------------------
>>>> #!/usr/bin/expect --
>>>> spawn ssh 192.168.0.9
>>>> expect "word: "
>>>> send "password\r"
>>>> expect "]$ "
>>>> interact
>>>> ----------------------
>>>>
>>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Ive seen this in VC too, so that rules out gnome-terminal, however 
>>> always
>>> with SSH, so maybe this is rather an SSH problem.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I just tried the same script with telnet instead of SSH.  The exact same
>> thing happens so it's not an SSH thing.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'm just grasping at straws and hoping for suggestions.
>>
>>
> By VC I meant system terminal... I had seen the issue there, but since 
> you don't... Then I couldn't say.
> 

I just tried to run the script a couple more ways.  In xterm and 
konsole, the exact same bad behavior occurs as when I stsrt it in 
gnome-terminal.  So it's sounding less and less like a strictly 
gnome-terminal issue.  I'd even say that Expect itself could be suspect 
except for the fact that it runs just peachy in a full screen 
(ctrl-alt-F1) console.

*Something* is causing this weird behavior...