strange home directory name change

[victorsk]

Hi everyone,

I recently installed LMDE version on my new machine at work and I noticed a bizarre name change when I SSH to LMDE machine remotely. What happens is when I cd to my home directory, just type 'cd home', the name 'home' changes to 'hmee'

So, at the prompt it says: "victor hmee #"

if I pwd, I get the right name "/home", but at the prompt it says "hmee".

Has anyone noticed this? Is it some kind of a funny trick in this LMDE version?

Thanks,
Victor.

[xircon]

Yeh, I have occasionally noticed this in normal operations in a terminal as well. Don't know what causes it, but as you say pwd returns the correct info.

Cheers

Steve

[scotte]

What's your PS1 set to? I.e.:

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$ echo $PS1

[victorsk]

What's your PS1 set to? I.e.:

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$ echo $PS1

Hi I get this response:

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${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\]

I have no idea what this means

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Just to add, I also installed LMDE on my 32-bit laptop but the anomaly in question is not happening on my laptop. The 'echo $PS1' command on my laptop also gives the following:

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${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\]

Which looks the same as the output on the machine with the problem. The machine with that strange home directory name is 64-bit, if that makes any difference.

[xircon]

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${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\]

Similar but not identical (and just as mystical )

[scotte]

PS1 is the prompt, and I wanted to see how it was configured. In neither case does it appear the prompt you are seeing is coming from PS1, which is curious. Both \w and \W are tokens for the directory name, but you should see '~' (tilde) when in your home directory, not 'home' (and certainly not 'hmee'!). Also, in the case for you victorsk, PS1 shows your prompt terminating with a '$', but your example shows a '#'! Very, very odd.

[EDIT] Ah-ha, here you go! http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590052

[victorsk]

Awesome! Thank you very much for the link, scotte. Now I can learn more about this problem