At 7:25 PM -0700 9/24/07, Dean S. Messing wrote: >Ian Chapman worte: >: >: Ah, I see what you mean now. I thought the problem was with bash itself, >: only you just happened to be doing something with grub at the time you >: noticed. I'm not really sure what else it could be. FWIW I've played >: around a bit and can't seem to make it not work for me. I don't really >: know what to suggest other than trying it from a different terminal >: program or a VT if you haven't already tried, checking your environment > >I am doing this from a VT. > >: variables, taking a look at /etc/inputrc and the auto-completion options > >I have no idea what to look for since everything works properly >in bash, itself. I don't quite understand the contents of >"/etc/inputrc" very well, >but this is a stock x86_64 Fedora 7 system right now. That file has >not been changed from the default. Again, bash, itself works as it should. > >: in the man page of bash to see if there's anything untoward. Sorry I >: know that's not much use. > >I appreciate your help. I just wish I had a clue. > >Could the fact that this is a 64 bit >system have anything to do with it? FWIW, I have two 64-bit Xen slices running CentOS 4.5 and 5 that both do that, while grub works as expected on my local 32-bit FC6 system. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>