Description of problem: this value of PS1 will crash zsh: PS1="%n@%m(%@)%# " this value will not: PS1="%n@%m(%T)%# " this is on a machine upgraded from FC1 to FC3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): zsh-4.2.0-3 How reproducible: you can either type it in a zsh shell, or put it in a user's .zshrc file and try logging in (assuming the user is set to use /bin/zsh as their shell). Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a new user account (call him floyd) 2. set floyd's shell to /bin/zsh 3. mv /home/floyd/.zshrc /home/floyd/.zshrc.old 4. echo 'export PS1="%n@%m(%@)%# "' > /home/floyd/.zshrc 5. try to login as floyd Actual results: you won't be able to login. if you have an echo statement prior to the PS1 line, it will echo, but you'll go back to the login prompt. Expected results: you'd log in. Additional info: i did the following as root: strace -f -o argh su - floyd argh is very long, but eventually it gets to: 9233 mremap(0xf1dd8000, 41943040, 83886080, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0xecdd8000 9233 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3 9233 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1285, ...}) = 0 9233 close(3) = 0 9233 mremap(0xecdd8000, 83886080, 167772160, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0xe2dd8000 9233 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3 9233 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1285, ...}) = 0 9233 close(3) = 0 9233 mremap(0xe2dd8000, 167772160, 335544320, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0xcedd8000 9233 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3 9233 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1285, ...}) = 0 9233 close(3) = 0 9233 mremap(0xcedd8000, 335544320, 671088640, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0xa6dd8000 9233 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3 9233 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1285, ...}) = 0 9233 close(3) = 0 9233 mremap(0xa6dd8000, 671088640, 1342177280, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) 9233 mmap2(NULL, 1342177280, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Sorry, I've switched to Ubuntu. Someone else will need to confirm this on FC5. It's relatively easy to do - you can just do: bash$ yum install zsh bash$ PS1="%n@%m(%@)%# " zsh If that segfaults, it's still an issue. If not, it's not an issue.
OK, I pasted this on #linux on irc.linux.ie and the ever helpful Mr. Jakma tried this out on his FC4 box: bash$ PS1="%n@%m(%@)%# " zsh [root@foo]/some/dir# Which just goes to show you should test advice before giving it - I think /etc/zshrc or something like it resets PS1. So just do this once you run zsh: [root@foo]/some/dir# PS1="%n@%m(%@)%# " root@foo( 9:49AM)# Perfect. The version of zsh on this FC4 box is: zsh-4.2.1-2. It does not exhibit the same bug. So unless FC5 degraded in this area I think you can close it.
Marking fixed in FC4 as per comment #3. Thank you very much!