In bash, the key that normally outputs the i
character, stays dead. It does not output anything, no space no character, multiple keystrokes of same key do neither.
This is happening on trisquel8, out of the blue, no upgrades, and reproducible after startups, restarts, halt and hard restart. It's only happening within the xterm, the mate-terminal, the console... at the bash prompt (shell used is bash). Any other application WILL recognize the i
as always. The login prompt recognizes i
.
Hardware is tested and functional. Asus SyncMaster laptop, internal and external Logitec keyboard produce the same ¨silence¨(no output).
Suppose it must be something to do with bash specific issues. Within commands (nano, since vim has an i
which cannot be typed to call vim), there is also the regular output expected i
.
Again stumped, this incapacitates the whole system, and that with no probable preliminary settings tweaks.
.inputrc
file in your home directory? what is the result if you enter$'b\151nd' -p | grep $'"\151"'
in a terminal? – steeldriver Jul 10 '19 at 13:58.inputrc
, please don't state things in your question if you haven't verified them. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jul 10 '19 at 15:58