installing bash with USE=-readline lets bash not read its config file (or complain about command not found or unknown option) tested version: bash 4.2_p24, 4.2_p24-r1 4.2_p28 used gcc version: 4.6.3, 4.7.0 as 'workaround' emerging bash with USE=readline makes the error disappear Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE=-readline emerge bash 2. 3. Actual Results: starting bash results in the following output <snip> bash: shopt: hostcomplete: invalid shell option name bash: shopt: hostcomplete: invalid shell option name bash: complete: command not found bash: complete: command not found bash: complete: command not found bash: complete: command not found bash: complete: command not found \[\]nico\[\]@\[\]belshirash ~\[\] $ \[\]nico\[\]@\[\]belshirash ~\[\] $ Expected Results: clean bash. emerge --info Portage 2.2.0_alpha101 (hardened/linux/amd64/desktop, gcc-4.7.0, glibc-2.15-r1, 3.3.4-hardened x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.3.4-hardened-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2620M_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 03 May 2012 22:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.8-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.9.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3::hardened-dev, 4.7.0::hardened-dev sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.3 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r1 Repositories: gentoo kde hardened-dev local Installed sets: @kde-telepathy, @kdeaccessibility-4.8, @kdeadmin-4.8, @kdeartwork-4.8, @kdebase-4.8, @kdegraphics-4.8, @kdelibs-4.8, @kdemultimedia-4.8, @kdenetwork-4.8, @kdepim-4.8, @kdetoys-4.8, @kdeutils-4.8, @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--misspell-suggestions=n --jobs=3" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l11" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/kde /var/lib/layman/hardened-development /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://blakharaz.schlumberger.soho/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 c++0x cairo caps cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac gdbm gdu gif gpm gstreamer handbook hardened iconv icu idn introspection ipv6 jpeg justify kde kerberos lcms ldap libedit libnotify logrotate lzma mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mudflap multilib mysql ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pango pax_kernel pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt3support qt4 sdl semantic-desktop session smp spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode urandom usb v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DRACUT_MODULES="biosdevname btrfs caps crypt crypt-gpg syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64 pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa v4l v4l2" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.2" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-shells/bash-4.2_p28 was built with the following: USE="(multilib) net nls -afs -bashlogger -examples -mem-scramble -plugins -readline -vanilla"
readline is what provides things like completion
(In reply to comment #1) > readline is what provides things like completion In that case I misunderstood the meaning of USE=-readline Thanks for clarification. And sorry for the noise. Nicolas
*** Bug 432338 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
