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My gnome-terminal on a ubuntu 10.10 machine is not working the way it should work. No autocomplete is working. ctrl + l won't clear the screen, bash prompt is simply a $ and nothing else. I got this machine passed on from someone else. I just created a new user for myself and hoped that I would get a fresh start.

I checked and there is no /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc. There was a folder named .profile.d that I renamed to something else. Stil the problem persists.

There are no configuration files inside my home directory either (.bashrc, .bash_profile, .bash_aliases)

I could use any help for troubleshooting this problem

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Sounds like you are running sh instead of bash. Try a ps $$ to confirm. – jw013 Apr 9 '12 at 19:28
yes ! it says sh. I remember I should specify what would be my login shell but dont remember where. Usermod should do the trick ? – AnkurVj Apr 9 '12 at 19:31
chsh if you have that. – Mat Apr 9 '12 at 19:32
@Mat usermod worked for me .. didnt try chsh – AnkurVj Apr 9 '12 at 19:43

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make sure that you are indeed running bash and not another csh for example by executing the following:

ps -p $$

This will tell you what shell you are running. If this returns something different than bash you can try your shortcuts after running the following:

bash

You can also change the users shell by running:

chsh -s /bin/bash `whoami`
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