No autocomplete when entering container through pct enter xxx

[H25E]

When I SSH into a pct autocomplete works good, when I enter with pct enter xxx command, it doesn't work at all. I have tried to find info online but I have found nothing. PVE v 7.3-4.

 

[Moayad]

May I ask what are you meaning by autocomplete exactly? Are you mean when you're pressing the TAB key?

 

[H25E]

Yes.

Sorry for the delayed answer, didn't get notification.

 

[H25E]

I don't know if the question it's idiotic, but I still haven't figured it out.

 

[Moayad]

Can you please provide us with the output of pveversion -v?

 

[H25E]

Sure:

proxmox-ve: 7.3-1 (running kernel: 5.19.17-1-pve)
pve-manager: 7.3-6 (running version: 7.3-6/723bb6ec)
pve-kernel-helper: 7.3-4
pve-kernel-5.15: 7.3-2
pve-kernel-5.4: 6.4-20
pve-kernel-5.19.17-1-pve: 5.19.17-1
pve-kernel-5.15.85-1-pve: 5.15.85-1
pve-kernel-5.15.83-1-pve: 5.15.83-1
pve-kernel-5.15.74-1-pve: 5.15.74-1
pve-kernel-5.4.203-1-pve: 5.4.203-1
pve-kernel-5.4.195-1-pve: 5.4.195-1
pve-kernel-5.4.73-1-pve: 5.4.73-1
ceph-fuse: 14.2.21-1
corosync: 3.1.7-pve1
criu: 3.15-1+pve-1
glusterfs-client: 9.2-1
ifupdown: 0.8.36+pve2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.4-1
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-1
libknet1: 1.24-pve2
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.4.3
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.3.1-1
libpve-access-control: 7.3-1
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.2-1
libpve-common-perl: 7.3-2
libpve-guest-common-perl: 4.2-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 4.1-5
libpve-storage-perl: 7.3-2
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.3-2.1
lvm2: 2.03.11-2.1
lxc-pve: 5.0.2-1
lxcfs: 5.0.3-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.3.0-3
proxmox-backup-client: 2.3.3-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 2.3.3-1
proxmox-mail-forward: 0.1.1-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.3-1
proxmox-offline-mirror-helper: 0.5.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 3.5.5
pve-cluster: 7.3-2
pve-container: 4.4-2
pve-docs: 7.3-1
pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20220526-1
pve-firewall: 4.2-7
pve-firmware: 3.6-3
pve-ha-manager: 3.5.1
pve-i18n: 2.8-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 7.1.0-4
pve-xtermjs: 4.16.0-1
qemu-server: 7.3-3
smartmontools: 7.2-pve3
spiceterm: 3.2-2
swtpm: 0.8.0~bpo11+2
vncterm: 1.7-1
zfsutils-linux: 2.1.9-pve1

 

[Moayad]

Hello,

Works here.

Did you edit the `~/.bashrc`, some terminal emulators didn't support the autocomplete, like "rxvt" so make sure that you are using an emulator sport the autocomplete.

 

[H25E]

No, I didn't modify the host bashrc nor the guest one. Autocomplete works perfectly when I connect through ssh but not with pct enter so I suppose it's not the emulator.

To be 100% accurate, basic autocomplete for binaries and directories works but not the "advanced" one, for example for systemctl commands and units.

EDIT: As a side note I'm using mobaxterm on windows

 

[Moayad]

The pct enter is actually a lxc-attach -n <CTID> [0]. Indeed, the systemct start {TAB TAB} didn't return any systemd services. However, you can install ZSH in the container, which will work perfectly

[0] https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-cont...46aa7571625b2a52ebcaadd2eb4cd330;hb=HEAD#l166