From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031714 Fedora/3.0-0.44.cvs20080315.fc9 Minefield/3.0b5pre Description of problem: as root, type echo /*/default.conf and bash just sits there until interrupted Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GNU bash, version 3.2.33(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type "echo /*/foo" 2. nothing happens 3. type interupt (I need to do it twice) to Actual Results: bash hangs until interrupted. Expected Results: bash should have echoed "/*/foo" and prompted for the next input line. Additional info: works without problem on SunOS, other linux machines (including Fedora Core 6)
I have rebooted the system, and the problem has gone away.
Timed out NFS/samba/whatever mount of some directory in / ?
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Does problem persist? Or was it by something in Comment #2? Or whatever?
No response. And looks like not a bug. If you want to get echoed /*/foo you can use: echo '/*/echo' Closing notabug
typo: echo '/*/foo'