Lost text input on command line

[Jon M. Hanson]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:45:10PM -0700, Matrix Mole wrote:
> I was trying out some command line torrent applications among which
> was ctorrent. For some reason, after executing ctorrent (wether to
> just get the command line flags or even to download/seed a torrent)
> the text input on my command line dissappeared. I can still type the
> commands and get their results (even the correct screen outputs such
> as ls), but there is no echo of those commands to the screen while I'm
> typing them. I'm doing this in an rxvt terminal running on Mac OS
> 10.4.11 connected via ssh to my gentoo box and then inside of screen.
> I did try changing the $TERM variable to see if that would help, and
> it didn't. I tried googling, but can't really seem to find the right
> combination of words to return any results that relate to this issue
> in any way. The only way to get my input echoed once again is to exit
> out of that screen terminal and just create a new one. Anyone have any
> suggestions on what could be causing this and how to resolve it
> without having to close out the shell?
> 
> Matrix Mole

Try typing "reset" without the quotes to see if that helps.