Thanks. I'll try your suggestions this evening when I get home. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:33:29AM -0800, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: > Since the problem does not appear under X, bash is not broken and you > probably have a mis-configuration somehow. The rc scripts that are > run are sensitive to the nature of the > session. Your console login is a "interactive login shell", while > under X it's merely a > "interactive shell". You might want to track down the scripts that > run in the two situations. > My first guess would be that your ~/.bashrc sets up completion, but > that file is not called > from /etc/profile. If that's not it you have some debugging to do.
I am pretty sure (though I am often wrong in these kinds of situations) that my .bash_profile sources my .bashrc, so that's probably not the problem (I'll double check of course). > When I have to do something like that, I pepper all of the rc scripts > with lines like > [ -e /etc/conf.d/DEBUG ] && echo "~$USER/.bashrc: \$-='$-'"\ > (modify according to what info you want and what script it's in) then > touch or rm the file > /etc/conf.d/DEBUG. > > Don't forget to include system scripts like /etc/profile and anything > else mentioned in > the man page (INVOCATION section). Actually, I wonder if it is /etc/profile that breaks stuff. My problem only occurs in the console/login shell, and the login shell, according to man bash, loads first /etc/profile, then ~/.bash_profile, which I've set to source ~/.bashrc. For the non-login shell (in aterm), bash only loads ~/.bashrc. And for the second case it works. So perhaps something is borken in /etc/profile? Also, since someone mentioned it in a reply: I realized that unwittingly I've only tested the behaviour using vim as the leading command. I have actually not tried other bash completions. So it may just be something in the vim module. But I am not sure. I'll test it tonight. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:56:53PM +0000, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > If it doesn't work for you after you log out/login, or you don't want > to do it this way, you'll have to follow Kevin's suggestion for > debugging all your rc scripts. W -- "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. " Sortir en Pantoufles: up 759 days, 14:35
