KEY ISSUE
Tab Autocomplete function was not working in one of my Distros, notably Linux Mint 18.3 ‘Sylvia’ MATE.
IMPORTANCE/PRIORITY
High – I use this function frequently, to “cd” to where I store my downloaded isos, and then use “dd” to burn USB sticks.
HISTORY OF PROBLEM/BACKGROUND
Started early February 2018. Duration 18 days, so far.
WIDESPREAD/GLOBAL?
No, just on this particular Distro, all others (23 – 24) are fine.
PROPOSED ACTION WAS
I was going to erase the Distro and reinstall.
It would have taken 2 minutes or less with GParted to erase the Distro; I had the iso to reinstall; this would have taken 30 minutes or more, and then 30 minutes or more to restore my Settings.
I also had a snapshot of the Distro with Timeshift, but thought there was little point in using it if it simply reproduced the problem.
MORE BACKGROUND
Some weeks ago, I had thought it handy to have the two partitions /dev/sda31 called Adata2-way (which I use instead of Home, for data storage) and /dev/sda32 Shifted, which I use for currently 18 snapshots of Distros … on my Desktop, that is, automounted.
Elsewhere, I had bookmarked, perhaps a year ago, a Tutorial on automounting, and tracked it down. It is here
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1513
… and so I modified my /etc/fstab file to accommodate that.
Here is my fstab, reproduced using nano.
SCREENSHOT 1 - fstab as it was
The bottom two lines were the new lines resulting from reading the Tutorial, and described my /dev/sda31 and /dev/sda32.
... following is my revised fstab
SCREENSHOT 2 - fstab revised, now
and here is my input at the Linux Community site (only partly reproduced, copyright may be in place)
SCREENSHOT 3 - my input to that Tutorial
That is my input at the top, we will see if anything comes back, from it.
So, in closing for now:
It does not matter whether you are a Newb/Noob, or an Old Hand at Linux (maybe 3 - 5 years experience, arbitrary figure) -
If you have troubleshooted (should that be troubleshot?
) a problem - it may be of interest or news to others, share them here
Meantime, I will keep on Posting, lol.
Enjoy your Linux, and share the love
Wizard