From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: possibilitybox <possibilitybox@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: zsh bug?
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:42:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041030214255.GF76157@dan.emsphone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc0ef2904103008394571e287@mail.gmail.com>
In the last episode (Oct 30), possibilitybox said:
> I was using zsh in screen, in an aterm (in x, obviously.), and
> suddenly I lost tab-completion ability and the ability to run any
> command except built-ins. When I tried to log back in I received an
> error about not being able to cd to my home directory, I may still
> have these errors in an irc log. Root could still log in, and once
> logged in as root (using the same shell) i could not su to my user; I
> received an error about not having permissions to execute /bin/zsh.
> Re-installing zsh from the slackware package fixed all my problems,
> but I figured that this error should be reported. (and I'm
> interested myself to know how that happened.)
Did you at some point remove read or execute access to /? That's the
only way I can think of that would have denied access to all
executables and your home directory at once. I can't imagine how zsh
could be responsible.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-30 21:43 UTC|newest]
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2004-10-30 15:39 possibilitybox
2004-10-30 21:42 ` Dan Nelson [this message]
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