Comment 30 for bug 177243

I'm seeing this on Ubuntu 12.04. (I installed beta2 a couple of weeks ago and have applied all updates since then).

I have commented out the entire body of /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh (due to a different issue).

With a newly created account, no changes to any $HOME/.* files :

$ uname -a
Linux kvetch 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.2.24(1)-release
$ dpkg -l bash bash-completion
[SNIP]
ii bash 4.2-2ubuntu2 GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii bash-completio 1:1.3-1ubuntu8 programmable completion for the bash shell
$ echo $HOME/<tab>

produces

$ echo \$HOME/