From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12170 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2004 17:18:30 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 17:18:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 24817 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2004 17:18:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7270 Received: (qmail 24760 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2004 17:18:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 17:18:04 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [130.225.247.86] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 17:18:3 -0000 Received: (qmail 30204 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2004 17:18:03 -0000 Received: from wbar3.sjo1-4-11-009-147.sjo1.dsl-verizon.net (HELO candle.brasslantern.com) (4.11.9.147) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 17:18:01 -0000 Received: (from schaefer@localhost) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i2PHI0E17571 for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:18:00 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: candle.brasslantern.com: schaefer set sender to schaefer@closedmail.com using -f From: Bart Schaefer Message-Id: <1040325171800.ZM17570@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:17:59 +0000 In-Reply-To: <11621.20.137.146.50.1080148943.squirrel@sos.cql.com> Comments: In reply to "Seth Kurtzberg" "Weird error with clearcase" (Mar 24, 10:22am) References: <11621.20.137.146.50.1080148943.squirrel@sos.cql.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Weird error with clearcase MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: **** X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.7 required=6.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_NJABL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 4.7 On Mar 24, 10:22am, Seth Kurtzberg wrote: } } When the default shell for a user is zsh, a the clearcase "setview" } command is invoked (clearcase version 6), zsh never starts. Running } strace shows that an error is continuously occuring with the zsh history } file. The error text says that an O/S call is being invoked to create a } cross device link. I suspect there's some subtlety here that strace output is not showing, and that the history file itself is a red herring. } Does this ring any bells for anyone? I don't use clearcase, but I seem to recall from previous discussions here that it presents the repository as a virtual filesystem. My guess would therefore be that the error really has to do with some access to that filesystem. Possibly the code that uses link() to create a lock file to protect shared access to the history? In which case it's not the location of the history file itself, but the value of the $HISTFILE variable that would be at issue. When you said ... } We moved the history file around ... did you mean that you changed $HISFILE?