On 10/24/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht schreef: > > Hi, On one machine of mine, and only one machine, bash completion is > > not working for my user account when I try to complete a path. I hit > > tab and nothing happens. Bash completion is working for files though. > > I can do bash completion in my home directory and get a list of > > files, but if I try to complete /usr/sr but hitting a tab it just > > sits and does nothing. > > > > It works fine for root. > > > > What turns this feature on for a user? I copied a good .bashrc file > > from a working machine over and logged back into the bad machine but > > that didn't fix it. > > > > man bash makes it look like it should be on by default. > > > > Thanks for the unix lesson. > > > > Cheers, Mark > > Yes, I have a similar problem, but bash-completion doesn't work > correctly for anybody (user or su root). > > I uncommented the bash completion command in both ~/.bashrcs long ago, > and at first the problem was only for root (which was weird enough); now > (what constitutes 'now' as opposed to 'previously' I don't know) if I > hit tab when filling in a path or a filename, as you said, nothing > happens; if I fill in the rest of the path manually, the file is not > found-- because my use of the TAB key has invisibly taken me up one > directory (where the file does not exist). When I hit enter, I find that > if I had started in /usr/local/src, I am now in /usr/local, for example. > > This occurs under various terminals (aterm, gnome-terminal, > multi-gnome-terminal, xterm), although bash-completion fails differently > under each of them (which is also weird). I know something has changed, > but not what. > > Although.... now that I'm looking into this (which I had not really > taken time to do, so I wasn't really 'worrying' about it as I had put > this annoyance on my secondary 'to-do/fix' list, despite the fact that > it's a major annoyance) I notice that I have both bash-completion and > bash-completion-config installed-- and the man > page for bash-completion-config says that the config files are in > /etc/bashcomp-configrc, if it exists, or $HOME/.bashcomp-configrc, if it > exists. > > So at least I probably need to check there first to see if > bash-completion has in fact been set, since there is no mention of > ~/.bashrc and perhaps those settings are now invalid, or in conflict. > > Something for you to check as well, Mark? > > Holly
Holly, Interesting, but somewhat different than mine. What I'm finding this morning is that as a user it will complete some paths. For instance here is completes for a path in my directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pwd /home/mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls CODE/ xfst-0.4 xfst-0.4.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd CODE/xfst-0.4/ Makefile fst.o install-sh vst/ xfst README fstconfig.c jackvst.h vsti.c xfst.exe.so audiomaster.c fstinfofile.c jfst.c vsti.o audiomaster.o fstinfofile.o jfst.o vstinfo.c fst.c gtk.c readme.jack-fst vstwin.c fst.h gtk.o tags vstwin.o [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd CODE/xfst-0.4/vst vst/ vsti.c vsti.o vstinfo.c vstwin.c vstwin.o [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd CODE/xfst-0.4/vst [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/CODE/xfst-0.4/vst $ pwd /home/mark/CODE/xfst-0.4/vst [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/CODE/xfst-0.4/vst $ and for a file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pwd /home/mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls CODE/xfst-0.4/ Makefile fst.o install-sh vst/ xfst README fstconfig.c jackvst.h vsti.c xfst.exe.so audiomaster.c fstinfofile.c jfst.c vsti.o audiomaster.o fstinfofile.o jfst.o vstinfo.c fst.c gtk.c readme.jack-fst vstwin.c fst.h gtk.o tags vstwin.o [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls CODE/xfst-0.4/vst vst/ vsti.c vsti.o vstinfo.c vstwin.c vstwin.o [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls CODE/xfst-0.4/vstinfo.c CODE/xfst-0.4/vstinfo.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ It works for hidden direcotries and files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd .wine/ dosdevices/ drive_c/ system.reg user.reg userdef.reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd .wine/drive_c/ My Documents/ Program Files/ windows/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd .wine/drive_c/windows/ Application Data/ fonts/ regedit.exe system32/ winebrowser.exe Start Menu/ inf/ rundll32.exe temp/ winhelp.exe _isenv31.ini notepad.exe system/ uninstall.exe winhlp32.exe command/ profiles/ system.ini win.ini [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd .wine/drive_c/windows/ However it will not complete for /usr, /bin or /var: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /us [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /bi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /var This seems almost like a permissions issue. However I can cd /usr/src, I just cannot bash complete it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd /usr/src [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ ls linux linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 linux-2.6.14-rc5-rt5 linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 patches [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ And indeed, I just found this item: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ ls -la ls: .: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ But I do not see what's wrong yet: gigastudio / # ls -la total 76 d-wxr----t 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 . d-wxr----t 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 .. -rw------- 1 root root 1437 Sep 7 04:53 .bash_history drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 7 08:09 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 7 08:06 boot drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 13520 Oct 24 08:53 dev drwxr-xr-x 54 root root 4096 Oct 24 08:53 etc drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 8 01:10 home drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Oct 22 08:18 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 6 08:49 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 8 09:34 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:11 opt dr-xr-xr-x 88 root root 0 Oct 24 08:53 proc drwx------ 11 root root 4096 Oct 23 14:17 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 22 09:25 sbin drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Oct 24 08:53 sys drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 Oct 24 10:26 tmp drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Oct 23 14:01 usr drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Sep 8 03:08 var gigastudio / # gigastudio / # cat /etc/group | grep mark wheel:x:10:root,mark audio:x:18:mark video:x:27:root,mark games:x:35:mark users:x:100:games,mark realtime:x:600:mark gigastudio / # I do not seem to have any packages installed for this, as best I can tell so far. I do nothave the same /etc files as you: gigastudio / # ls -la /etc/bash* total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 24 10:40 . drwxr-xr-x 54 root root 4096 Oct 24 08:53 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132 Jul 30 04:06 bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1627 Jul 30 04:06 bashrc gigastudio / # Strange problems! Thanks, Mark I do not see the issue (yet) where I end up one directory higher. I'll keep an eye out for that. -- [email protected] mailing list
