Debian Bug report logs - #568191
avahi completion waits network timeout or prints error messages

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: bash-completion: scp <tab> floods with network errors, not filenames

Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:05:46 +1100

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.1-3
Severity: normal

re: /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh

scp is used for copying ordinary files (with the extra bonus of
sending them through the internet).  So the behaviour I would expect
from scp <tab> is to complete filenames, the ones you intend to send.

Instead of that, scp <tab> goes insane trying ping every single host on the
network whose MAC address it happens to know about, and then floods
the screen with error messages complaining it can't connect to them:

Failed to resolve service 'bore [00:00:00:00:00:00]' of type
'_workstation._tcp' in domain 'local': Timeout reached

at least 50 such error messages from all the local hosts.
Oh, and the filename I happened to be trying to tab-complete to also
appeared at the end after all these network error messages.

This is absolutely insane.  It makes tab-completion effectively
useless for scp.

Please remove the interfering networking attempts and let
tab-completion do its normal job of making it easier to type filenames.

Drew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          4.1-1      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 568191@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@smop.co.uk>

To: 568191@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bash-completion: scp <tab> floods with network errors, not filenames

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:42:55 +0000

seconded.  TBH I'd just like an option to turn off completion against
the network - it's not just the message but the fixe second hang that
really annoys me. 

Adrian
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Message #15 received at 568191@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brad Jorsch <anomie@users.sourceforge.net>

To: 568191@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bash-completion: scp <tab> floods with network errors, not filenames

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:03:57 -0500

To turn it off, edit /etc/bash_completion and comment out or remove the
bit about avahi (lines 1302-1315 in the version of the file distributed
with 1:1.1-3). And then source /etc/bash_completion to activate the
changes in your current session, or just log out and log back in.

Message #20 received at 574950-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>

To: 574950-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#574950: fixed in bash-completion 1:2.1-3

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:03:30 +0000

Source: bash-completion
Source-Version: 1:2.1-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bash-completion, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 574950@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
David Paleino <dapal@debian.org> (supplier of updated bash-completion package)

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:44:27 +0100
Source: bash-completion
Binary: bash-completion
Architecture: source all
Version: 1:2.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Bash Completion Maintainers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>
Description: 
 bash-completion - programmable completion for the bash shell
Closes: 496162 574950 665651 673235 680852 697513 698977 702498 704832 708173 737672 737881 739835 741657
Changes: 
 bash-completion (1:2.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Import patch from Ubuntu:
     - fix_quote_readline_by_ref.patch, thanks to JuanJo Ciarlante
       (Closes: #739835):
       + avoid escaping 1st '~' (LP: #1288314)
       + avoid quoting if empty, else expansion without args only shows
         dirs (LP: #1288031)
       + replace double escaping to single (eg for completing file/paths
         with spaces)
     - words_bad_array_subscript.patch, thanks to Barry Warsaw
     - dpkg_ddeb.patch: dpkg also supports *.ddeb, thanks to Sebastien
       Bacher (LP: #568404, Closes: #737881)
     - disable_avahi_browse.patch: slow, and doesn't scale to big
       networks, thanks to Chris Jones (Closes: #574950, LP: #510591)
     - xine_add_more_formats.patch: add oga and ogx to multimedia players
       (Closes: #496162, LP: #311525)
   * debian/maintscript, debian/postinst:
     - clean etc conffiles on upgrade since completion files are in /usr
       with 2.0, thanks to Sebastien Bacher
   * debian/control: marked Multi-Arch: foreign
   * debian/patches/:
     - fix_gcc_detection.patch, correctly parses Debian's GCC version
       number, thanks to Tomas Janousek (Closes: #665651)
     - xpdf_support_compressed_pdf.patch, in Debian xpdf also supports
       compressed files, thanks to Alfredo Finelli (Closes: #702498)
     - dpkg_support_raw-extract_vextract.patch: add support for more
       options in dpkg-deb, thanks to Uwe Storbeck (Closes: #698977)
     - dpkg_fix_-W_option.patch: -W|--show doesn't support udebs/ddebs,
       thanks to Luca Capello (Closes: #697513)
     - aptitude_safe-upgrade.patch: safe-upgrade supports package names,
       thanks to Nicolas Le Cam (Closes: #673235)
     - ifconfig_locale.patch: _mac_addresses() didn't consider locale
       awareness of ifconfig, thanks to Thilo Six (Closes: #704832)
     - dont_return_from_sourced_script.patch: avoid problems with shells
       not supporting returning from a sourced script (Closes: #741657)
     - look_for_pod.patch: perldoc: look for .pod in addition to .pm
       files, thanks to Carl Hayter (Closes: #708173)
   * debian/extra/debhelper/dh_bash-completion: fix installation process
     when more than one "proper snippet" is being installed, thanks to
     Jean-Michel Vourgère (Closes: #680852)
   * Dropped completions included in util-linux (Closes: #737672)
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