I have been using Slackware since the '90s, and have been mostly only using clean installations when new versions come out.

Recently, I did a new installation of Slackware v14.2, and in reading about I discovered "slackpkg" which is an excellent idea, which I wish I knew of sooner.

However, after trying to do the update to current by using:
and somewhere around "upgrade-all", I lost all of "/bin, so I used the original DVD to reinstall Slackware 14.2, without formatting to save my data (which worked).

And now, whenever I press any auto-complete key, such as <Tab>, <Ctrl-D>, or <Esc>, I am logged out. Which is something that had not happened before. The previous behavior was either auto-complete the file name or command, or nothing. Sometimes I would get the auto-complete as before, but mostly I just get logged off.

Was thing changed within the shells of Slackware 14.2?
I have tried with both tcsh (old-school) and bash, the same thing in both shells.

Is there a setting I can change to get the previous behavior back?
Is there something I can do to prevent log out from anything but "logout" and "exit" command?

Any and all help is appreciated?

I hadn't recognized how dependent I was on autocomplete until I couldn't

Did you uninstall the leftovers from -current?

EDIT: You might have to run as well to ensure the configuration files from 14.2 are used instead of whatever -current had.

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More easy , download "current" ,iso ..and install.

http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/

You shouldn't upgrade to -current without reading and following the text in UPGRADE.TXT and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT on that mirror. But as USUARIONUEVO mentioned, it would be easier to download a -current iso and use that to install.

After reinstalling the 14.2 stuff, you should run slackpkg clean-system and have it remove all the extra programs that were added to -current (which is what Richard was alluding to) and then run slackpkg new-config to make sure you are running the correct conf files.

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I had hoped that slackpkg clean-system would have handled that. But that was an assumption on my part.

Good idea.

Wasn't aware that was available, thanks.

All of my attempt to use the "-current" stems from the idea that the 14.2 base "fdisk" command does not seem to support my "My Book Duo 4Gb" external hard drive, which I use for backups.

I had run slackpkg clean-system. But not slackpkg new-config, which I will do.

Thanks for all your assistance.

you can use gdisk for that.

gdisk does not seem to accept a wildcard for a parameter, like fdisk does.

What I need to do is fdisk -l to see which external hard-drive went to which device. For some reason, they end up at different devices, so I need to what I need to change within the /etc/fstab file.

Have a look at this article to make permanent changes to your fstab and lilo.conf to prevent devices changing from causing you issues.

Thank you, just what I needed.

I did run slackpkg new-config, rebooted, and do not see any difference. <Tab>, <Ctrl-D>, and <Esc> still log me out when I don't wish to be.

Is there a way to disable "single" key logout, only allowing the use of the command itself?

Take a look inside ~/.inputrc and /etc/inputrc. (See to see why.) Completion is normally controlled by readline, so maybe something is off with its installation.