In Xubuntu Saucy 64-bit I had the same problem, somehow during
installation .bash_history was owned by root. Just had it modified by:
sudo chown user.user .bash_history
and
sudo chmod 755 .bash_history
and got my history back
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I think this has regressed again in precise. At least when I issue
shutdown I lose all my histories.
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bash 4.2 does not save history
On 08/03/2012 10:51 AM, James M. Leddy wrote:
I think this has regressed again in precise. At least when I issue
shutdown I lose all my histories.
Well maybe that's from shutdown not bash?
At least here since the change in bash was reverted history is always
saved except if log
Hi all,
Pls see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-
terminal/+bug/740346?comments=all
for a closely-related bug, now in the GUI shell (i.e. gnome-terminal)
and my suggestion at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-
terminal/+bug/740346/comments/5
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Those are both good suggestions, at least some kind of visual indicator
(i.e., menu entry) would be good for people not aware of this change.
Thing is, if someone patches GNOME Terminal to fix this, it will still
affect xterm, Konsole, Guake, and all the other front-ends out there.
I'm still
For those who want to compare the shells http://www.faqs.org/faqs
/unix-faq/shell/shell-differences/.
A quote:
Why change your shell
The UNIX shell is most people's main access to the UNIX operating
system and as such any improvement to it can result in considerably
more effective use
Recent update of bash (4.2-0ubuntu3) integrates a upstream patch for
this bug.
# DP: bash-4.2 upstream patch 008
BASH PATCH REPORT
=
Bash-Release: 4.2
Patch-ID: bash42-008
Bug-Reported-by:Doug McMahon
Well then this can be marked as fix released
(gotta love how gnu.org posts my email in full
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Title:
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Just for reference, here's the changelog from Ubuntu's update manager:
Changes for the versions:
4.2-0ubuntu2
4.2-0ubuntu3
Version 4.2-0ubuntu3:
* Apply upstream patches 007 - 008.
So even when I don't overlook the...you get the point. It's nice that it's
fixed though :)
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** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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Title:
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Gimmie the stick...I'd like to take a few swings at that dead horse too.
It would have been nice to get a message when I opened terminal for the
first time that explained this loss of function. I rely heavily on
.history and lost another 30 minutes tracing down this bug report.
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I'm not always opposed to Change but this one is really a bug. what if
the computer just get unplugged and shutdown ? they are many options I
don't totally remember , so the history is a good help for this.
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QUOTEI'm probably beating a dead horse here, but the point is this:
I'm a relatively experienced user who is interested in development and
release notes and so on and I ended up with this problem. Take that as
you will (laziness/unperceptive behavior on my part, or whatever), but
it still happened
While it would be nice if someone whose 'opinion' does matter (in terms of
debian/ubuntu) commented on this, one might take the lack of in a couple of ways
There is a huge triaging/bug fixing going on and this may be of very low
importance, interest, or -
it is the way it is now. (nothing to
And I think it is worth repeating -
If the current bash maintainer, chet ramey, feels this is the correct behavior
, then I'm not in a position to question and I've seen no one post any
'evidence' to contrary
(his comments are in post 6
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All points here are well taken, and I will of course get used to the new
behavior.
That doesn't change the fact that that this was a large disruption to my
every day usage. I realize I'm just complaining now, but it seems there
should be a mechanism in place to inform users of substantial under
Justin wrote but it seems there should be a mechanism in place to inform
users
there is in the release notes, not sure this 'qualifies'
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Doug McMahon wrote there is in the release notes, not sure this
'qualifies'
I suppose that's the same as changelog? As in what you get when using
the Update Manager? That functionality is of course already present,
but I was thinking more along the lines of a mechanism that makes it
easy for
Thanks for the good explaination. Your Idea with the *notification* is
really nice. I know this is not the right place for discussions, but
anyway, there are two points that are important for me:
For me, personal, it is a bug. It doesn't appear that a function has
been removed. It HAS been
I think it could be interpreted both ways - regression or feature. I
personally think it's a regression and should be patched, but I guess
we'll just have to wait and see.
As for another shell, zsh is similar to bash and is available in the
repos. It has the old history behavior. I'd also
Installed shells (/etc/shells: valid login shells): cat /etc/shells
Change login shell: chsh
Example:
Installing zsh (a shell with lots of features): sudo apt-get install
zsh
Valid shells: cat /etc/shells
=
...
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh
...
Changing: chsh -s /bin/zsh
Log out Log in
The
Justin wrote I suppose that's the same as changelog?
No, the release notes are available when installing in the installer and
at/after release from the ubuntu site where 'get ubuntu' is shown.
anyway there seems to be many options here available from the user side,
what the official end result
Doug McMahon wrote No, the release notes are available when installing
in the installer and at/after release from the ubuntu site where 'get
ubuntu' is shown.
Oh. I didn't think things like this were included in the release
notes.
Thanks for linking to your sudo bug, that's actually very
I'm not fine with this nor do I think most people will. This is an
unexpected behaviour and many people will be confused about this.
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I agree. It was a few days before figured out how to get it working
again. First I found this bug report, but after following the
instructions it still wouldn't work. Turns out it was a setting in my
extensively modified bashrc relating to history. Drove me nuts. Now I
still close the window
Until another and better solution is there, I worked this around by
installing bash 4.1 from Maverick.
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Title:
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I'm not going to speak for the ubuntu/debian maintainer(s) who have
remained silent on this , but a few add. comments
The change concerning this was made upstream, I'd certainly consider
their/his (chet ramey) knowledge of bash to be such that the change was
well justified. (nothing I could
No single good point for me. Tell me, please, only ONE good reason to
change the behaviour we have until this, not really good, pronounced
change.
I cannot image any point.
You will get a lot of bugreports for this. And, sorry, but do you
overtake any change from upstream, without thinking about
** Summary changed:
- bash 4.2 does not save history (~/.bash_history
+ bash 4.2 does not save history (~/.bash_history) when using close window
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I'm actually fine with this new behavior now that I know the why and how to get
the history written to (exit command; Ctrl+d
Certainly it's not my place to mark as 'will not fix', though I think someone
in that position should either do so or comment as seen fit.
It wouldn't hurt to have noted
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