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From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: d.vogt@lifebits.de, zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: RE: zsh crash, unable to log in
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:18:51 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003c01c140e3$dae61470$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010919094606.A4972@lifebits.de>

>    $ 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


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-19  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <FLEKKKDFJJDCBMPOEGGPIEOOCBAA.c-Monty.Scroggins@wcom.com>
2001-09-19  7:46 ` Dominik Vogt
2001-09-19  8:18   ` Borsenkow Andrej [this message]
2001-09-20 16:34   ` PATCH: " Bart Schaefer

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