Debian Bug report logs - #645693
bash-completion has errors

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

From: Thomas Mueller <thomas.mueller@tmit.eu>

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

Subject: bash-completion files of grub and git prevent xsession to start with gdm3

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:21:50 +0200

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Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.3-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

due to *possible* errors within /etc/bash_completion.d/git and /etc/bash_completion.d/grub, gdm3
cannot start the xsession.

After purging bash_completion logon works find.

The issue is could be within:
 - bash_completion, which maybe is not that fail safe on script execution
 - git and grub, because the scripts have errors
 - gdm3, because it isn't that fail safe as well
 - *any other suspect*

 
I have no idea what the root cause is, please try to find a solution.

Thanks alot,

Thomas


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash  4.1-3

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Message #10 received at 645693@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>

To: Thomas Mueller <thomas.mueller@tmit.eu>

Cc: 645693@bugs.debian.org, grub-common@packages.debian.org, git@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#645693: bash-completion files of grub and git prevent xsession to start with gdm3

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:55:12 +0200

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retitle 645693 bash-completion has errors
clone 645693 -1
reassign 645693 grub-common
reassign -1 git
thanks

Hello Thomas,

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:21:50 +0200, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> due to *possible* errors within /etc/bash_completion.d/git
> and /etc/bash_completion.d/grub, gdm3 cannot start the xsession.

Those files are not provided by us. Next time, please report your bugs to the
correct packages ;)

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Message #23 received at 645693-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

To: Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller@tmit.eu>

Cc: 645694-done@bugs.debian.org, 645693-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bash-completion files of grub and git prevent xsession to start with gdm3

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:48:03 -0500

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the quick response.

Thomas Müller wrote:

> /etc/bash.bashrc:if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
> /etc/bash.bashrc:    . /etc/bash_completion

This part looks sane.

[...]
> /etc/profile:if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
> /etc/profile:    . /etc/bash_completion

This looks broken.  You can see the default /etc/profile in
/usr/share/base-files/profile.  It relies on bash.bashrc to source the
bash completion scripts, doing so only when the "$BASH" envvar is nonempty
(so it does not get run by other shells).

It would be possible for /etc/bash_completion to give a more specific
error message when it is being run by something other than bash, but
that would have the downside of hindering development of bash-style
completion scripts meant to be run by other shells that handle most of
bash's features (like zsh).

Hence closing.  Where did those lines in /etc/profile come from?

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

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