Odd auto-complete bug (RedHat9/zsh 4.0.6 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu))

Odd auto-complete bug (RedHat9/zsh 4.0.6 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu))

[Cove Schneider]

Hi,

For quite a while now, every now and then I'll type "cd 
<some_letters><tab>" and zsh will get very confused, dump some ldap 
directory information to the screen in binary and stay stuck in this 
mode until I press ^D.

This has happened twice to me today, though I can't seem to figure out 
how to reliably reproduce it. Has anyone noticed this before?

Any info appreciated. Thanks.

Cove

E.g.

rst:/usr/local/src/squirrelmail/squirrelmail-1.4.2# cd pu            0 
14:18:06
0╴╴c╴╴dc=wildpackets,dc=com

╴(╴
    objectclass
               posixAccount╴     uidpu0iuid
                                           userPassword  uidNumber       
gidNumbehomeDirectory
loginShellgecos
                description
                           objectClasscd



c


0Bcd: no such file or directory: pu
rst:/usr/local/src/squirrelmail/squirrelmail-1.4.2# cd pu            1 
14:18:20

Re: Odd auto-complete bug (RedHat9/zsh 4.0.6 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu))

[Cove Schneider]

I also noticed this in the logs:

Oct 13 13:08:14 rst zsh: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
Oct 13 13:08:14 rst zsh: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 
attempt(s)
Oct 13 14:18:20 rst zsh: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
Oct 13 14:18:20 rst zsh: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 
attempt(s)
Oct 13 16:23:59 rst zsh: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
Oct 13 16:23:59 rst zsh: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 
attempt(s)


On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Cove Schneider wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For quite a while now, every now and then I'll type "cd 
> <some_letters><tab>" and zsh will get very confused, dump some ldap 
> directory information to the screen in binary and stay stuck in this 
> mode until I press ^D.
>
> This has happened twice to me today, though I can't seem to figure out 
> how to reliably reproduce it. Has anyone noticed this before?
>
> Any info appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Cove
>
> E.g.
>
> rst:/usr/local/src/squirrelmail/squirrelmail-1.4.2# cd pu            0 
> 14:18:06
> 0¡Z¡Zc¡Z¡Zdc=wildpackets,dc=com
>
> ¡Z(¡Z
>    objectclass
>               posixAccount¡Z     uidpu0iuid
>                                           userPassword  uidNumber      
>  gidNumbehomeDirectory
> loginShellgecos
>                description
>                           objectClasscd
>
>
>
> c
>
>
> 0Bcd: no such file or directory: pu
> rst:/usr/local/src/squirrelmail/squirrelmail-1.4.2# cd pu            1 
> 14:18:20
>

Re: Odd auto-complete bug (RedHat9/zsh 4.0.6 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu))

[Peter Stephenson]

Cove Schneider wrote:
> I also noticed this in the logs:
> 
> Oct 13 13:08:14 rst zsh: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...

It's possible this is related to a weird bug with NIS I've been noticing
on Solaris for a long time now; one particular user's home directory is
scrambled if I refer to ~rwy under some set of conditions.  So their may
be something weird in the network database lookup.

We had a patch recently to remove explicit lookup of NIS etc., since
modern libraries will do it automatically.  Unfortunately it doesn't
test for systems where this is the right thing to do, so we can't
incorporate it just like that.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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