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It sometimes happens to me as well, even if I correctly source the devel/setup.*sh. If I first manually enter the package I have just created, then autocomplete works.

Some other times autocomplete throws an error like in Permission denied: .gvfs . It seems that you are using a virtual machine and the .gvfs is a virtual file extension, maybe it's related.

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