ubuntu jaunty bash completion for sudo not enabled by default

[Musthafa Meeran]

Binary package hint: bash-completion

I did a fresh install of Kubuntu Jaunty today and noticed that bash completion doesn't work with sudo, by default.

Web search found me this page - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6923243

which says that the following code in /etc/bash.bashrc should not be commented.

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

But this is commented in a fresh install !!!

Could you please enable bash completion for sudo, by default ?

BTW, I am reporting this as a new bug, since the other bugs for this issue were closed.

Thanks a lot...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: bash-completion 20080705ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bash-completion
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic i686

[James Westby (james-w)]

This file actually comes from bash.

Thanks,

James

[stuartmarsden (stuartmarsden)]

Can confirm this. This is a change from previous version config even if it did come from upstream. I think it should be restored. It is a real pain when doing sudo apt-get not to have completion.

Thanks for the resolution Musthafa un-commenting those lines restored the capability.

[Vincenzo Ampolo (vincenzo-ampolo)]

Hi, attached is a debdiff which solves this.

I've tested it in pbuider-dist jaunty and it installed correctly.

goshawk@earth:~/pbuilder/jaunty_result$ sudo dpkg -i bash_3.2-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for goshawk:
(Reading database ... 100175 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bash 3.2-5ubuntu1 (using bash_3.2-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bash ...
Setting up bash (3.2-5ubuntu2) ...

Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...

[Vincenzo Ampolo (vincenzo-ampolo)]

Patch submitted

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Musthafa Meeran: Did you really do a clean install or did you keep your /home directory? This is enabled in /etc/skel/.bashrc so should work by default for new users.

Vincenzo: Remember that "Fix commited" means that a new revision fixing this has already been uploaded, not that a patch is available :).

[Musthafa Meeran (musthafameeran-deactivatedaccount)]

I remember doing a fresh install of Alpha 6 with a new /home dir.
I am currently using Intrepid and I can confirm that, even though
/etc/skel/.bashrc has it enabled, unless those lines are uncommented
in /etc/bash.bashrc, bash completion doesn't work !!

[Vincenzo Ampolo (vincenzo-ampolo)]

Hi. i did these tests:

1)Installing ubuntu jaunty from livecd in virtualbox and checking for ~/.bashrc it's there and bash completition works
2)installing kubuntu jaunty from alternate install in virtualbox and checking for ~/.bashrc it's there and bash completition works

So it seems that there are no problems in a fresh install.

About your system can you paste here the output of ls -lars ~/.bashrc and can you post your ~/.bashrc?

Can you finally do "cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~" logout and login and test bash completition?

Thanks

[Musthafa Meeran (musthafameeran-deactivatedaccount)]

I have a customized .bashrc in my homedir which is not same as
/etc/skel/.bashrc !!
Copying /etc/skel/.bashrc to ~/ works, but I don't remember whether
~/.bashrc was available in Alpha 6 installation.
If it is not a problem in the final release, then we can close this bug.

Thanks a lot....

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Vincenzo Ampolo
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi. i did these tests:
>
> 1)Installing ubuntu jaunty from livecd in virtualbox and checking for ~/.bashrc it's there and bash completition works
> 2)installing kubuntu jaunty from alternate install in virtualbox  and checking for ~/.bashrc it's there and bash completition works
>
> So it seems that there are no problems in a fresh install.
>
> About your system can you paste here the output of ls -lars ~/.bashrc
> and can you post your ~/.bashrc?
>
> Can you finally do "cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~" logout and login and test
> bash completition?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> ubuntu jaunty bash completion for sudo not enabled by default
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345525
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “bash” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “bash” source package in Debian: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: bash-completion
>
> I did a fresh install of Kubuntu Jaunty today and noticed that bash completion doesn't work with sudo, by default.
>
> Web search found me this page - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6923243
>
> which says that the following code in /etc/bash.bashrc should not be commented.
>
> if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
>    . /etc/bash_completion
> fi
>
> But this is commented in a fresh install !!!
>
> Could you please enable bash completion for sudo, by default ?
>
> BTW, I am reporting this as a new bug, since the other bugs for this issue were closed.
>
> Thanks a lot...
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> Package: bash-completion 20080705ubuntu3
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_IN
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: bash-completion
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic i686
>

[Vincenzo Ampolo (vincenzo-ampolo)]

bash completition is enabled by ~/.bashrc by default and it can be turned off depending from the user usage. enabling it in /etc/bash.bashrc is not a good behaviour cuz all the users will get bash completition, even the people that disabled it