I would like to reopen this bug with a suggestion for a possible solution. My idea is to run /etc/bash_completion in the background without delaying the display of a basic terminal. Bash has the functionality to perform basic completion (e.g. getting the name of an executable in a directory from $PATH) and this should be sufficient for the first 2 seconds of a user's session. I tried to move /etc/bash_completion to /etc/bash_completion_real and then created a dummy file /etc/bash_completion containing ". /etc/bash_completion_real &" but this does not seem to work. Somehow the completion executes in the background but does not affect the opened bash session. Could anyone suggest a fix?
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119526 Title: Slow start time -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs