I managed to get a stacktrace, though not in debug mode, of such a crash, attached. On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Nir Friedman wrote: > Yes, I run with a tabbed emulator (terminator) and just the one tab > closes, sorry that wasn't clear. I will try running zsh from inside zsh and > see what I come up with. > > I'm mostly on FC20, but I've also observed this on recent Ubuntu versions. > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > >> Nir Friedman wrote on Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 16:45:23 -0400: >> > Hi Daniel, >> > >> > My apologies, I only realized upon rereading this that I completely >> omitted >> > a description of what happened! What happens is that it crashes the zsh >> > process. So if you are running zsh by simply calling it from bash, it >> > reverts to the bash process. If (more typically) you are running the zsh >> > process directly in your terminal emulator, it crashes that window of >> the >> > terminal emulator. >> > >> >> What probably happens is not that the terminal emulator crashes, but >> that it closes because the shell exited (abnormally). Try instructing >> the terminal emulator to remain open after the process in the pty exits >> (such as with tmux's remain-on-exit option), or using a tabbed terminal >> emulator, to see this. >> >> > I'm not sure if zsh is killed by signal or some other mechanism. >> >> Try running zsh from another zsh instance. If the nested zsh crashes, >> the outer zsh will tell you that: >> >> % zsh >> tarsus% kill -11 $$ >> [1] 17214 segmentation fault zsh >> % echo $? >> 137 >> >> I'm not sure what to say about the rest of your email, so I'll leave it >> to others on list. Incidentally, what OS / distro are you on? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Daniel >> > >