Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike Edenfield did opine thusly:
> On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike > > > > Edenfield did opine thusly: > >> Is there something special about the file name > >> /etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file > >> to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I > >> log in. As far as I can tell this is the only filename that gets this > > > >> wierd treatment: > > grep -r is your friend here. Most likely it happened when you typed an > > "echo > file" type command sometime and botched the redirectors > > Huh. Found it, but now I'm even more confused than before: > > platypus ~ # ls -alF /etc/bash_completion.d/java > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Nov 16 08:18 /etc/bash_completion.d/java -> > //etc/portage/package.use/java > > I'm pretty sure I didn't actually make that softlink myself, and I have > no idea where it came from: > > platypus ~ # equery belongs /etc/bash_completion.d/java > * Searching for /etc/bash_completion.d/java ... > platypus ~ # Maybe you had the bad luck to install an awesomely dodgy ebuild. Here's what it should be: # ls -al /etc/bash_completion.d/java lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 27 03:08 /etc/bash_completion.d/java -> /usr/share/bash-completion/java You can either just fix the symlink, or remerge bash-completion. I'd also check /etc/bash_completion.d/ for any more dodgy symlinks -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
