completions broken for root user

completions broken for root user

[Scott Lipcon]

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I recently upgraded zsh on my FreeBSD machine, and now the freebsd specific
completions are broken for the root user only...

As my user, if I do:

$ pkg_info zsh<tab>

it completes.

As root:
# pkg_info zsh<tab>
_arguments:340: _bsd_pkg_pkgs_and_files: function definition file not found

# which _bsd_pkg_pkgs_and_files
_bsd_pkg_pkgs_and_files () {
# undefined
builtin autoload -XUz
}

(if I do the same which command as my user, i get the function
definition...)


my $fpath variables are the same in both shells, and both contain
/usr/local/share/zsh/4.2.5/functions/Completion/BSD/, which has the _bsd_pkg
containing that function...

What else should I be looking for?

Thanks,
Scott

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Re: completions broken for root user

[Mike Hernandez]

On 9/30/05, Scott Lipcon <slipcon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently upgraded zsh on my FreeBSD machine, and now the freebsd specific
> completions are broken for the root user only...
<snip>
>
>  my $fpath variables are the same in both shells, and both contain
> /usr/local/share/zsh/4.2.5/functions/Completion/BSD/, which
> has the _bsd_pkg containing that function...
>

I'm just guessing here, but something like this has happened to me before:
I logged in my "regular" user, and my custom functions worked...
then I used su to become root... and my custom functions stopped working.

Turns out that I forgot that su doesn't source my shell files,
sourcing them manually worked, and su - worked as well.

Mentioning it just in case :)

Mike

Re: completions broken for root user

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 30, 11:58am, Scott Lipcon wrote:
}
} What else should I be looking for?

The only thing I can think of is to look for .zwc files that are
readable only by root and which need to be recompiled.

Re: completions broken for root user

[Scott Lipcon]

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Thanks. I tried removing and recompiling the .zwc files anyway, although
root and my user have different .zsh directories, and each can read its own
files with no problem. There are no .zwc files in the /usr/local/share/zsh
directories so that shouldn't be a problem...

For the other poster, I get the same behavior whether I su or log in as root
- the default shell for root on FreeBSD is csh, so whenever I become root I
just run zsh manually... could that have something to do with it? Running
zsh manually as my user the completions work fine.

Scott



On 10/1/05, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 30, 11:58am, Scott Lipcon wrote:
> }
> } What else should I be looking for?
>
> The only thing I can think of is to look for .zwc files that are
> readable only by root and which need to be recompiled.
>

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Re: completions broken for root user

[Scott Lipcon]

for the archives: i finally figured it out - I had an old zcompdump file 
that wasn't being auto-regenerated for some reason.  After deleting 
that, and logging in, completions work fine again.

Scott



Scott Lipcon wrote:
> Thanks.  I tried removing and recompiling the .zwc files anyway, 
> although root and my user have different .zsh directories, and each can 
> read its own files with no problem.   There are no .zwc files in the 
> /usr/local/share/zsh directories so that shouldn't be a problem...
> 
> For the other poster, I get the same behavior whether I su or log in as 
> root - the default shell for root on FreeBSD is csh, so whenever I 
> become root I just run zsh manually... could that have something to do 
> with it?  Running zsh manually as my user the completions work fine.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/1/05, *Bart Schaefer* <schaefer@brasslantern.com 
> <mailto:schaefer@brasslantern.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sep 30, 11:58am, Scott Lipcon wrote:
>     }
>     } What else should I be looking for?
> 
>     The only thing I can think of is to look for .zwc files that are
>     readable only by root and which need to be recompiled.
> 
>