From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: zsh crash, unable to log in
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:46:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010919094606.A4972@lifebits.de> (raw)
Yesterday, I encountered a pretty severe problem with the history
file that prevented me from logging in (I have zsh as my login
shell). I used the zsh version shipping with SuSE 7.2:
$ 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
If this happens for the root user, the system is out of business.
I can reproduce the problem at will by copying a random executable
file over my .zsh_history:
$ cp /bin/ls ~/.zsh_history
$ zsh
zsh: fatal error: out of memory
$ rm ~/.zsh_history
$ zsh
(works fine)
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
P.S.: Please CC me, I'm not on the list.
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2001-09-19 7:46 ` Dominik Vogt [this message]
2001-09-19 8:18 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-09-20 16:34 ` PATCH: " Bart Schaefer
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