Re: Bug#439425: Random, but fairly regular, zsh segfaults

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:50:12PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 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).

Recompiling zsh will have to wait until I'm back from Japan; sorry.
I use "bindkey -v", and the most common ways I get to the history
are ESC-k and ESC-/

-Robin

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