Bug#422130: cant login into gnome-2.18 in Debian Sid+experimental error in debconf :/etc/bash_completion.d/debconf: line 10: `_debconf-show': not a valid identifier

Prakash J Kokkatt pjkonweb at gmail.com
Fri May 4 05:58:24 UTC 2007


Hello,
As with Today's upgraded gdm (gdm_2.18.1-2_i386.deb).the problem seems
fixed.please close the bug.or wait for some one else also to post.
                                                                      reg,
                                                                    Prakash

On 5/3/07, Prakash J Kokkatt <pjkonweb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: debconf
> Priority: required
> Section: admin
> Installed-Size: 1496
> Maintainer: Debconf Developers <debconf-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 1.5.13
> Hello,
> I uses debian experimental+ Sid apt-pinned.with today's upgrade I
> ended up with cant login into my GNOME Desktop.the error is showing on
> the login process as
> :~$cat .xsession-errors
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w
> /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l
> ":0" "root"
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> /etc/bash_completion.d/debconf: line 10: `_debconf-show': not a valid identifier
> While upto gdm screen everything seems alright.
> the line contains:
> /etc/bash_completion.d/debconf: line 10: `_debconf-show': not a valid identifier
> I checked that file and its contents are below:
> ~# cat /etc/bash_completion.d/debconf
> have debconf-show &&
> _debconf-show()
> {
>         local cur
>
>         COMPREPLY=()
>         cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
>         COMPREPLY=($( compgen -W '--listowners --listdbs --db=' -- $cur ) \
>                         $( apt-cache pkgnames -- $cur ) )
> }
> complete -F _debconf-show debconf-show
> the files source was from the package "debconf".
> I logged into this session with gnome by running gnome-session along
> with startx :(
> Hope this bug get fixed upstream.
>                                                                          truely,
>                                                                Prakash
>





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