pidof is traditionally located in /sbin, despite being an end-user-useful program. (/sbin insanity; *sigh*). Fedora now includes sbin directories in the path by default, but this can't be assumed for all users. Long term, pidof should maybe be moved. Short term, pidof needs to be hard-coded to /sbin/pidof in /etc/bash_completion, or else many completions get this: $ ssh [tab]-bash: pidof: command not found
There is only one use of pidof in bash-completion 1.1 and even that has been removed upstream so the problem will go away in future updates. While annoying, AFAIU the error message you see should be just an annoyance and shouldn't prevent things from working (although hostname completions won't include hosts reported by avahi) and requires a fairly specific non-default setup (no /sbin in PATH, avahi-browse in PATH) for even that so I think this alone does not warrant a package update right now.
No no, this is not a WONTFIX - it is a bug but one I just don't think needs fixing with an update right now as there's nothing else queued. I'd like to keep this open for tracking purposes and will close when a fix is in. (And BTW, I still dislike the /sbin insanity too.)
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle. Changing version to '13'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
bash-completion-1.2-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bash-completion-1.2-1.fc13
bash-completion-1.2-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
bash-completion-1.2-3.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bash-completion-1.2-3.el5
bash-completion-1.2-4.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.