photonymous
December 23rd, 2010, 03:33 AM
Preface: I have Googled around on this problem, but I'm a bit of a newb, and perhaps don't know the right search terms....
I've just created a new Amazon EC2 instance using a public Ubuntu image (10.10). (I'm using 10.04 locally).
When I SSH into my running instance, I can kindof navigate around OK, but when I try to do anything that requires dumping a bunch of characters to the console window, the console totally hangs (locks up). Ctrl+C doesn't work.
For instance, I can't do a directory listing if the directory contains too much stuff, and I can't cat a file if the file's too big. However, I can redirect the output of such a command to a file, and the file gets created correctly. Here's a command that consistently hangs the terminal:
> ls /proc/
Why is it hanging when I try to output more than, say, 1000 characters to the console window?
Much thanks to anyone who can help!!
I've just created a new Amazon EC2 instance using a public Ubuntu image (10.10). (I'm using 10.04 locally).
When I SSH into my running instance, I can kindof navigate around OK, but when I try to do anything that requires dumping a bunch of characters to the console window, the console totally hangs (locks up). Ctrl+C doesn't work.
For instance, I can't do a directory listing if the directory contains too much stuff, and I can't cat a file if the file's too big. However, I can redirect the output of such a command to a file, and the file gets created correctly. Here's a command that consistently hangs the terminal:
> ls /proc/
Why is it hanging when I try to output more than, say, 1000 characters to the console window?
Much thanks to anyone who can help!!