[issue983] zsh freezing on tab completion (ls)

[Frank Terbeck]

Frank Terbeck <ft at grml.org> added the comment:

Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Bobby wrote in grml's BTS on 20110509 / 21:27:
>> I actually thought the same thing when I first started looking at this (in 
>> regards to the version)! Exec zsh does the same thing.  I haven't tried removing 
>> all aliases yet (and will), but I wanted to show you what I found in the 
>> debugger because after I said I wasn't running into any infinite loops I think I 
>> may have run into one.
> [...]
>
> I just tried to verify the problem on my own and definitely run into
> an infinite loop which is debuggable in gdb.
>
> AFAICT the problem is that Ubuntu took Debian's 4.3.11-3 version,
> applied their own stuff and uploaded as 4.3.11-4ubuntu2.is.3ubuntu1
> whereas Debian's zsh 4.3.11-4/4.3.11-5 includes bugfixes that are
> supposed to address this issue. So this should be reported to Ubuntu
> (and the developers should be asked why they are breaking version
> numbers, sigh).

Yeah.

Just for the record. I think this is the same problem as described in
#353863:

    <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353863>

The upstream fix for that is included in debian's `4.3.11-4' but *NOT* in
ubuntu's `zsh_4.3.11-4ubuntu2.is.3ubuntu1':

    <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353863#75>


FWIW, I can't reproduce this issue on a `squeeze' system with grml's
zshrc and a very recent git-build of `zsh' (which obviously also
includes said patch).

Regards, Frank

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assignedto: ft
messages: 3753, 3754, 3756, 3757, 3758, 3759, 3760, 3761, 3762, 3763, 3764, 3765
nosy: ft, vienessewaltzer
priority: bug
status: chatting
title: zsh freezing on tab completion (ls)

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