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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk,
	Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>,
	439425-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#439425: Random, but fairly regular, zsh segfaults
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:50:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708251750.l7PHoCTD003747@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> of "Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:51:12 EDT." <20070825145112.GA24393@scowler.net>

Clint Adams wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:40:26PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > zsh does the following to me fairly regularily; this seems different
> > to me than the other segfault bug reports.  It seems to do it
> > slightly more often in my root shells.  It seems to motly occur when
> > I'm typing ahead (due to engaging in complicated history searching
> > or whatever during machine slowdowns).
> > 
> > I'm not sure how to get further data on this; it's pretty random.
> > I'd be happy to work with the maintainer or upstream people, but
> > note that I'm AFK from 28 Aug 2007 to 11 Sep 2007.
> 
> What are your history-related options?  What are the values of $HISTSIZE
> and $SAVEHIST ?

It would be good to get a backtrace with full debugging information
(configure with --enable-zsh-debug; it shouldn't make any difference to
normal use), also to know how you're invoking the history search
mechanism (there are lots of ways in).

Thanks.
-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-25 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070825004026.12883.52907.reportbug@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
2007-08-25 14:51 ` Clint Adams
2007-08-25 17:50   ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2007-08-25 17:54     ` Robin Lee Powell
2007-08-27  0:11       ` Clint Adams
2007-08-27  2:29         ` Robin Lee Powell
2007-08-25 17:53   ` Robin Lee Powell
     [not found] <20070526205426.GA19686@alea.gnuu.de>
2007-05-27  2:50 ` Bug#426161: zsh: crashes in reverse_menu Clint Adams
2007-05-28 12:29   ` Peter Stephenson
     [not found] <schizo@debian.org>
2007-04-14 20:53 ` release whinging Clint Adams
2007-04-15 18:58   ` Peter Stephenson

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