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RE: zsh crash, unable to log in

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From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: d.vogt@xxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: zsh crash, unable to log in
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:18:51 +0400
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>    $ zsh --version
>    zsh 4.0.1pre3 (i386-suse-linux)
> 
> What happened is this:  After a hard reboot, i.e. switching off
> the machine, my ~/.zsh_history file was corrupt.  It only
> contained 38k of binary trash.  Now, every time when I tried to
> log in I just got the message
> 
>   $ zsh
>   zsh: fatal error: out of memory
> 

this is a bug (BTW I missed if there was any patch for it?) but ...

> If this happens for the root user, the system is out of business.

... root user should use the simplest shell possible. Besides, zsh
relies to some extent on /usr being mounted (at least in default
installation).


-andrej

References:
- zsh crash, unable to log in
  - From: Dominik Vogt

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