LKBEN11534: After hitting Ctrl-S, my bash is not responding anymore
Symptom
Instead of Ctrl-A, you hit the S key and everything seems to be stalled.
Cause
This is by design. Ctrl-S will pause flow control, also called XOFF and the terminal will not show your input anymore.
Solution
In case you have this problem, you need to restart flow control by Ctrl-Q and your terminal will respond again. The flow control was used in serial communication to pause transmitting and to start again. XOFF and XON have Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q connected to them. XOFF means to pause transmission and XON resumes transmission.
Have fun.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.
Latest update: 03-03-2022 | Comment: