command_not_found_handle shows no errors when command-not-found is uninstalled

[Anders Kaseorg]

Binary package hint: bash

There are two problems with the command_not_found_handle hook in /etc/bash.bashrc:

• [The first one was a dupe of bug 561046, removed.]

• If both command-not-found and command-not-found-data are uninstalled but a shell remains open from when command-not-found was installed, then bad commands yield no error message at all:

anders@balanced-tree:~$ badcommand
anders@balanced-tree:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: bash 4.1-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.29-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs wl nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 11 22:57:27 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bash

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

The no-error case is related to the change described in 420161 “command-not-found not working properly in karmic”: bash 4.0 no longer prints its own error message after running command_not_found_handle. (This was worked around in command-not-found by having command-not-found print its own error message.)

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Only half of this was a duplicate of bug 561046. I’ve repurposed this bug for the other half and unmarked it as duplicate.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bash - 4.2-2ubuntu1

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bash (4.2-2ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:

bash (4.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix command-not-found location. Closes: #529313.
  * Print a replacement error message if command-not-found was removed
    after bashrc was loaded. Closes: #631023. LP: #561155.
  * skel.bashrc: Document and prepare enabling the globstar feature (Fabian
    Greffrath). Closes: #627926.
  * Apply upstream patches 021 - 024.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:58:07 +0200