Re: [Fab-user] workon

[Jiri Barton]

Hi,

> That looks just like what I have (other than using 'source' instead of
> '.', but they are equivalent). I'm guessing your bashrc is not
> executing fully (i.e. one of the commands in the middle is silently
> failing)? Try sticking those commands farther up in the bashrc, or
> stick some echo statements throughout to see where it stops executing
> so you know what to fix.
> 

very good Jeff. It was my .bashrc. For reasons unknown, the default
.bashrc on Ubuntu starts with

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

which more than explains it. Thank you for pointing me in the right
direction!

Jiri