shell init issue when click tab what s wrong with getcwd

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once i click Tab on bash  the error message will appear  what s wrong   symlink-hook  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  No such file or directory symlink-hook  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  Success symlink-hook  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  Success symlink-hook  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  Success symlink-hook  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  No such file or directory symlink-hook  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  Success symlink-hook  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  Success symlink-hook  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  Success   sometimes  the error message is   shell-init  error retrieving current directory  getcwd  cannot access parent directories  No s uch file or directory   how to solve shell init problem

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By chance  is this occurring on a directory using OverlayFS  or some other special file system type    I just had this issue where my cross-compiled version of bash would use an internal implementation of getcwd which has issues with OverlayFS  I found information about this here      It seems that this can be traced to an internal implementation of   getcwd   in bash  When cross-compiled  it can t check for getcwd   use   of malloc  so it is cautious and sets GETCWD BROKEN and uses an   internal implementation of getcwd    This internal implementation   doesn t seem to work well with OverlayFS       http   permalink gmane org gmane linux embedded yocto general 25204   You can configure and rebuild bash with bash cv getcwd malloc yes  if you re actually building bash and your C library does malloc a getcwd call

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Just change the directory to another one and come back  Probably that one has been deleted or moved

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Yes  cd  and cd - would work  The reason It can see is that  directory is being deleted from any other terminal or any other program and recreate it  So i-node entry is modified so program can not access old i-node entry

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This usually occurs when your current directory does not exist anymore  Most likely  from another terminal you remove that directory  from within a script or whatever   To get rid of this  in case your current directory was recreated in the meantime  just cd to another  existing  directory and then cd back  the simplest would be  cd  cd -

[linux] shell init issue when click tab, what's wrong with getcwd?

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