Where did my tab to auto-complete go for my terminal?

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

normally when i type "sudo apt-get ins" and i hit the tab key it auto-completes install and i could also auto-complete package names
for some reason it is not working on my fresh install of xubuntu raring from todays (March 1st, 2013) daily iso

[screaminj3sus]

working fine for me in xubuntu raring fresh installed the other day

[Toz]

A few things to check:

1. Are you using the bash shell?

2. Is bash-completion installed?

3. Does the file /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/apt-get exist?

4. Have you tried re-installing bash-completion?

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

1. assuming env would tell me if i am running bash, i am running bash
2. yep
3. yep
4. just tried reconfiguring and reinstalling to no avail
i can't seem to auto complete "apt-get" if i start it with sudo (still cant auto-complete 'install')
edit: it works on my guest session, must have been fixed during todays updates, and i just have a outdated config fine in my home folder, but idk which i need to delete

[Toz]

What happens if you source bash_completion:

. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion

Does it work then?

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

~$ apt-get ins_init_completion: command not found
_init_completion: command not found
_init_completion: command not found

[Toz]

Is that the response that you get when sourcing the /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion file? Very odd.

ls -l /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion

...I get:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66440 Jul 23  2012 /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion

Did you change your ~/.bashrc file? Within it:

if ! shopt -oq posix; then
  if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
    . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
  elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
  fi
fi

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

i had this issue litterally after clean installing todays daily iso fro xubuntu, 1st thing i did was open a terminal and go to install synaptic when i noticed it

chad@chad-A54C-NB91:~$ ls -l /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66440 Oct 23 18:12 /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
chad@chad-A54C-NB91:~$ cat .bashrc
cat: .bashrc: No such file or directory
chad@chad-A54C-NB91:~$ cat ~/.bashrc
cat: /home/chad/.bashrc: No such file or directory
chad@chad-A54C-NB91:~$

[Toz]

How about:

echo $SHELL

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

going to sleep now...