[SOLVED] Strange auto-complete issue in LMDE UP4

[anayonkars]

Hi,

After repetitive updates, finally I'm done with my update to UP4. It also seems that servers are working fine now.

However, after upgrading, I found a weird issue : auto-complete in terminal does not work properly. I searched over the web and found that some people faced similar issue, but in their case, auto-complete was not at all working. In my case, it works partially.

Let me give you an example:
When I type 'apt-' and hit tab, I get all commands starting with 'apt-' (e.g. apt-add-repository, apt-get etc.)
But when I hit tab after 'apt-get in', I don't get anything. Before upgrading, it used to auto-complete it to 'apt-get install'.
Even after apt-get install, when I partially type name of a package, tab key doesn't complete the package name automatically (it used to do it in UP3).

I even don't know if this is issue with apt, bash, gnome3 or UP4.

Any help would be appreciated.

Update : I just found that same issue persisted on cinnamon as well.

Also, does anyone know how to shut down the machine in gnome3? I'm using `init 0`

[äxl]

For shutdown look here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 40#p563540

Auto-completion should be a bash problem. Did you ever change your .bashrc?

[anayonkars]

For shutdown look here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 40#p563540

Auto-completion should be a bash problem. Did you ever change your .bashrc?

Thanks a lot. I'll try gnome-shell-extension.

Apart from that, I actually never had .bashrc file, so some time back, I did create my own file. However, your suggestion was enough hint for me to remember that during UP4, something was changed in default bashrc files (in /etc dir) and I accepted maintainers version.

After doing a little search, I found below:
The .bashrc file should contain:

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if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
 . /etc/bash_completion
fi

That's it. Now auto-complete is working butter-smooth

[kaefert]

thanks for this solution! ran into the same problem.

The only thing that surprises me, is that there is not more activity arround this bug. Is no one using his gnome-terminal in LMDE?? Or is everyone who is using LMDE anyway such a linux pro that he is maintaining his .bashrc himself and such an issue is that obvious that they don't even go online for it..

[Monsta]

The only thing that surprises me, is that there is not more activity arround this bug. Is no one using his gnome-terminal in LMDE?? Or is everyone who is using LMDE anyway such a linux pro that he is maintaining his .bashrc himself and such an issue is that obvious that they don't even go online for it..

The thing that surprises me more is that it's not mentioned that the terminal also loses colors after update. I thought it's much easier to spot than the partial completion issue...
Here's a thread about it: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=99254

[kaefert]

The thing that surprises me more is that it's not mentioned that the terminal also loses colors after update. I thought it's much easier to spot than the partial completion issue...
Here's a thread about it: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=99254

gg, well for me the system that helps my bad memory is more important than beautiful colors But thanks for the link, gonna look at it

[äxl]

Also found this: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=148&t=82867