I wrote: > Pasting into even The Simplest Imaginable Perl Program: > perl -e '$s=<>' likewise instantly crashes the kernel Chris Brannon wrote: > I'm not seeing the same behavior over here. > Exactly which kernel version are you running? > And what does cat /sys/accessibility/speakup/version tell you? I wrote: > 2.6.32-5-686 > Speakup version 3.1.5, soft synthesizer driver version 2.6 Something which might help: I can't paste into the STDIN of anything, not even cat, but I am able to paste directly into the shell, or into a shell built-in. E.g. if "Gloop" has been marked and cut: box8 (debian) ~> echo Gloop # pasting the Gloop :-) Gloop box8 (debian) ~> cat # now paste the Gloop :-( [NNNN.NNNN] BUG: scheduling while atomic: /swapper/0/0x10010000 (dialogue reconstituted by hand for obvious reasons :-) happily, we have journalling filesystems these days...) I'm using (debian stable): GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Hope this helps, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Was der Meister nicht kann, verm?cht es der Knabe, h?tt er ihm immer gehorcht?" Siegfried to Mime, from Act 1 Scene 2