Description of problem: new version of coreutils triggered probelm with ls giving LS_COLORS errors: $ \ls --color=auto -l --context ls: unrecognized prefix: ca ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable drwxrwx--- jdyoung jdyoung unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t edu Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils 6.10 30.fc9 How reproducible: type ls as above (or any ls command using color in certain directories). Actual results: See message above Expected results: Colored output Additional info: $ echo $LS_COLORS no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:do=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.svgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.lzma=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.dz=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.tbz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.deb=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.jar=00;31:*.rar=00;31:*.ace=00;31:*.zoo=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.7z=00;31:*.rz=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.jpeg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.pbm=00;35:*.pgm=00;35:*.ppm=00;35:*.tga=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.tif=00;35:*.tiff=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.mng=00;35:*.pcx=00;35:*.mov=00;35:*.mpg=00;35:*.mpeg=00;35:*.m2v=00;35:*.mkv=00;35:*.ogm=00;35:*.mp4=00;35:*.m4v=00;35:*.mp4v=00;35:*.vob=00;35:*.qt=00;35:*.nuv=00;35:*.wmv=00;35:*.asf=00;35:*.rm=00;35:*.rmvb=00;35:*.flc=00;35:*.avi=00;35:*.fli=00;35:*.gl=00;35:*.dl=00;35:*.xcf=00;35:*.xwd=00;35:*.yuv=00;35:*.svg=00;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:
(In reply to comment #0) > Description of problem: > > new version of coreutils triggered probelm with ls giving LS_COLORS errors: > > $ \ls --color=auto -l --context > ls: unrecognized prefix: ca > ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable > drwxrwx--- jdyoung jdyoung unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t edu > I had the same problem, but after a 'source ~/.bash_profile' I fixed it. Did you try to reload bash_profile stuffs?
I hadn't tried it. And yes, that did work. Thanks for the work-around!
Thanks for report. Problem caused by removal of updated ls. Capability prefix was added to LS_COLORS at coreutils-6.10-28.fc9 , but due to bug in tcsh (see #457342) it was removed quickly in coreutils-6.10-30.fc9. What you see is caused by the fact that bash{whatever shell) session has old LS_COLORS from coreutils-6.10-28.fc9 but "new" ls from coreutils-6.10-30.fc9 . This could be fixed by shipping ls with capability support but with no capability prefix in dircolors files. Will do that in next F9 update although I guess it will be already fixed on most of the machines (as it should not happen in new shell session).