[SOLVED] Bash is acting crazy, please help

[rm-rf]

For some reason bash is acting really really weird. When I use my gui terminal, and I try
to use tab completion, it freezes up the terminal, and I can't edit the line at all unless I do a ctrl+c.
and when I try to do tab completion in text only mode it prints out : "Error: Can't open display: (null)"
again and again and again, and I have to do a ctrl+c, also in text only mode it will randomly log me out. I have tried checking for blown caps, but there weren't any, and all the other programs work fine except for the command line.

I am using bash version: 4.1.5(1)-release
and gnome-terminal version: 2.30.2

[Rubberman]

I don't think this is a bash issue. Something else is going on here. Perhaps something has been corrupted on the disc, like a shared library or something? FWIW, I'm using bash 4.1.2 and gnome-terminal 2.31.3 without problems in this regard.

[devils casper]

Have you tried booting up in Command Line Mode? Check if system logs you out in command line mode too.

[rm-rf]

actually I figured it out just after I posted that (this sort of thing happens to me a lot for some reason) it turns out that it was because I had this in my .bashrc file: "alias read='xclip -o | espeak --stdin'"

[devils casper]

Well Done !
Do start a new thread if you have any other question.

[rm-rf]

thank you!