Arch Linux

[dedanna1029]

I have fixed Arch.

WHEN THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO FIX BASH-COMPLETION???!!!

Wish the same fix would work on Fedora, but I uninstalled bash-completion from it ages ago.

[viking60]

The link does not work.
And stop being mysterious - How did you fix Arch? We all are dying to know what the problem was?

[dedanna1029]

It works now.

I had to re-uninstall bash-completion - had that bug again.

[viking60]

Hm interesting - That means that if I install it I will get the same bug I guess. I have Nvidia G96 GeForce 9400 GT on that box.?

[dedanna1029]

Try it and see. Your card is different from mine. Very.

[viking60]

I have GeForce 9400 GT and you have GeForce 7300 GT. So there are similarities. OK here we go.......
Ok have it working now (nice) so the moment of truth has come - rebooting.......
And...
tam tam tam tam tam (the suspense is killing you I'm sure)
No problem whatsoever

Dedanna I think our cards use the same driver. So this is odd
Anyway this could not hurt. I like to optimize my database.

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sudo pacman-optimize && sync

[dedanna1029]

Again though, the Arch issue isn't a driver issue. It's a bash-completion issue. So, whatever driver we have installed isn't going to affect it, nor is what card we have or don't. I caught that bash-completion bug in Arch (which is verified upstream), uninstalled bash-completion, which is the recommended thing to do for it, and it worked. I'm in it now.

The Fedora issue however, is a driver issue.

[viking60]

Ok sounds reasonable.
But if it is not a driver issue and only a Bash-completion issue, why is it working here? Is it a card issue ?

[dedanna1029]

No clue. Try a reboot and see what happens I guess? AFAIK you never did get it. I did. Had it before, uninstalled bash-completion then, and it worked fine then, too. It affects gdm is what it is, makes X keep timing out and not let gdm load. Read the bug - I linked to it above. It's mostly on gdm2 - I had uninstalled at the same time, gdm-old, and installed gdm2. Still had bash-completion installed, and it didn't like it. I then remembered the bug, uninstalled bash-completion, and it worked fine from then on with gdm2.

If that all makes sense.

[viking60]

Well - you did what works that's smart. The bug does not explain much IMO.I have gdm2 installed.

[dedanna1029]

I think this does - the second link posted in our post of the bug.

By investigating bug #20264, it has been found that /etc/profile detects the shell run in a broken way.

ls _l /proc/$$/exe will always return /bin/bash when run from a shell sh or /bin/sh (which is symlink to bash)

so detection of shell in /etc/profile will fail

some folks on #bash on freenode thinks trying to implement profile.$shell for each specific shell is I quote "stupid".

however a way to fix could be to test for $POSIXLY_CORRECT which is set when bash is run as sh
or compile bash with the correct option to use /etc/bash_profile ?=

[viking60]

Oh yes that was very clear So what does it mean
Are you saying that your Graphical environment was not detected because of:

ls _l /proc/$$/exe will always return /bin/bash when run from a shell sh or /bin/sh (which is symlink to bash)
so detection of shell in /etc/profile will fail

Does the boot process constitute a "running from shell"?
I am a fairly simple minded bloke, so I will just give up understanding this
You clearly got your improvement by removing that piece so the fix is known anyway.