[PLUG] Bug? with tab completion in terminal

[wes]

you did state that there is plenty of space available, but did you check
all drives/partitions?

-wes

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 7:33 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> A few days ago, while attempting to get information about a movie file
> that had a long and complicated name I just typed the first couple of
> letters and then hit tab. Here is an example from just now:
>
>         mkvmerge -i The_bash: cannot create temp file for
>         here-document: No space left on device
>
> I had typed 'The_' before hitting tab. And, of course, there are
> terabytes of free space available.
>
> When this first occurred a few days ago I started to post a query here,
> but was delayed in sending it. A few hours later I discovered that the
> problem had resolved itself, so I killed the post that I was going to
> send. But tonight it is back, so I probably need to solve the problem.
>
> In case it is important, I almost always use Gnome terminal, but last
> time it happened I experimented by going to a real command line
> (Ctrl-Alt-F1), where the problem continued. In other words, it is
> probably not Gnome terminal.
>
> The computer is Xubuntu 14.04, up to date.
>
> Observations and suggestions welcome.
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