Willie Wong wrote: > 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 > >
I'm no guru bit I'd be glad to email you a copy of my files if you need them. Just let me know. If nothing else, you could diff them and see what is wrong that way. Dale :-) :-)
