SSH Copy/Paste Freezes terminal?!?

cole42 · 03-18-2008, 10:19 AM

Here at work we call this "playing stump the geek", its an odd problem...

Running Ubuntu 7.10

Open terminal window
SSH into another box (Solaris)
highlight commands from a word doc (opened via OpenOffice)
center mouse button paste into the SSH terminal (also tried ctrl-c/ctrl-v, menu copy/paste)

SSH terminal is now frozen, can't type, ctrl-c, ctrl-d, nothing.

close terminal, open a new one, ssh back in, everything is fine. the moment I copy/paste something into the terminal it freezes.

anyone??

b1f30 · 03-18-2008, 10:39 AM

On the Solaris side:

Code:

# export

Find out what TERM is. You might have to switch it to 'VT100' or the like.

cole42 · 03-18-2008, 11:28 AM

my term was set to xterm, switched to vt100 with the same result.

I must update my original post tho, I found that I can do a ctrl-c to un-freeze the terminal.

cole42 · 03-18-2008, 12:01 PM

There was an odd character in the word document, a long dash character, that was locking up the terminal. I converted them all (31) to regular '-' chars and it works fine.

Thanks for the help though!!