Single User Mode display problem

[TheGreatSudoku]

This morning I had to boot into Single-User Mode in order to fsck my /home partition which was stuck in read-only mode. I ran into a minor annoyance once I got to the command line. After I issued the command:

$fsck /dev/sda3

the prompt disappeared and on a new line was printed:

ck

I typed in the rest of the command:

ck /dev/sda3

then printed on a new line was:

de

I type din the rest
dev/sda3

on and on until it finally ran the command. What setting do I have out of whack to cause this and how can I go about correcting it?

[Roken]

I've had this problem for ages and can't find a solution, but there's a workaround. Use teh bash prompt to enter an sh promt (enter sh if it's buffering two characters, or s <enter> h <enter><enter>) and you should drop to a none-bash working prompt.

It's only in single user mode that this happens. TTYs in a full running system are fine.

[TheGreatSudoku]

would changing root's login shell from /bin/bash to /bin/sh in /etc/passwd automatically fix this for single-user mode? or does single user-mode ignore the defualt shell setting?