Setup: Mac OSX 10.6.8, Terminal 2.1.2 (273.1)
My Terminal sometimes becomes unresponsive after I enter certain commands. An example is when I put a tail on the catalina.out file though it happens at other times as well.
An example of the steps I take when im putting a tail on.
I go to the startup folder
cd /Applications/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin
Enter the start command
sh startup.sh
Go to my logs folder
cd /Applications/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/logs
And put a tail on the catalina.out file
tail -f catalina.out
This all works fine and the terminal window displays the processes as they are being used. However, if I try to type something else in Terminal it becomes unresponsive. If I press the Up or Down arrow to get list the previous commands all I get is for UP is "^[[A" and "^[[B" for DOWN.
When I type e.g. "cd .." and press enter nothing happens
Why does Terminal become unresponsive and how can I make it execute my commands? At the moment I have to quite Terminal each time this happened which is a bit annoying.