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Something strange started happening to my terminal. Whenever I type some wrong command it tries to run that command in the background.

hegeek@colinux: ~# l   
[9]+  Stopped   l  
thegeek@colinux: ~# fdsl  

[10]+  Stopped                 fdsl

What could be the issue?

EDIT:

After restarting the system the issue is solved. But I am still curious what caused this issue. I think it has to do something with command_not_found_handle shell function. While trying to find the command, it was doing something weird.

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What output do you get from the alias command? – Warren Young Sep 3 '10 at 22:09
just one "alias ls='ls --color=auto'". Its an new colinux installation. – Hemant Sep 3 '10 at 22:13
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Does saying /bin/sh -l fix it? If not, what about switching to another shell, like tcsh -l? – Warren Young Sep 3 '10 at 22:17
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this is a weird problem +1 because I've no clue. – xenoterracide♦ Sep 4 '10 at 0:39
@Warren Young: After restarting ubuntu this problem solved. But I dont know what caused it. – Hemant Sep 4 '10 at 4:31

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That sounds like the command-not-found hook was acting up for some reason. I've had problems with it before, but never could figure out how to fix it :-/.

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