Bug#671940: interactive dash does not work in some xen environments

2012-05-10 Thread Terho Uotila
On Wed, 9 May 2012 16:06:26 -0500 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, more debugging suggestions: set This. :D ... MKSH=/bin/mksh OPTIND=1 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games PGRP=25718 PPID=25702 $(precmd)${USER:=$(ulimit -c 0;id -un 2-||print

Bug#671940: interactive dash does not work in some xen environments

2012-05-09 Thread Terho Uotila
On Wed, 9 May 2012 05:15:16 -0500 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Terho Uotila wrote: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: I guess output from strace -f -e open dash might help. Anyway, I'm closing this since all signs point to the bug being about some form

Bug#671940: interactive dash does not work in some xen environments

2012-05-09 Thread Terho Uotila
On Wed, 9 May 2012 05:22:53 -0500 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: This still makes no sense. Memory corruption somewhere? :/ dash has no internal notion of a typeset command, so when we see | token word typeset that has to be coming from somewhere.

Bug#671940: interactive dash does not work in some xen environments

2012-05-09 Thread Terho Uotila
I looked some more and it looks possible that I do have misconfigured quota, like you suspected. However, why does only dash blow up? Hopefully problem disappears once I get around to fixing quota, until then I can manage well with quota off (unless you want to poke at this more. :) On Wed, 9

Bug#671940: interactive dash does not work in some xen environments

2012-05-09 Thread Terho Uotila
On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:53:54 -0500 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: I forgot to ask for output from type dash ldd $(which dash) tuotila@vicente:~ $ type dash dash is /bin/dash tuotila@vicente:~ $ ldd $(which dash) linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fff2afff000)

Bug#671940: interactive dash does not work in some xen environments

2012-05-08 Thread Terho Uotila
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-7.4 Trying to start dash as interactive shell starts looping error messages until killed, in some xen vps machines. (Unfortunately I don't know why some have this error and others do not.) $ dash dash: Syntax error: ( unexpected (expecting )) (repeat) -- To

Bug#671940: interactive dash does not work in some xen environments

2012-05-08 Thread Terho Uotila
On Tue, 8 May 2012 12:40:30 -0500 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Terho Uotila wrote: Trying to start dash as interactive shell starts looping error messages until killed, in some xen vps machines. (Unfortunately I don't know why some have this error and others do

Bug#671940: interactive dash does not work in some xen environments

2012-05-08 Thread Terho Uotila
(resending with @bugs included this time) On Tue, 8 May 2012 18:16:25 -0500 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Terho Uotila wrote: Correction to my original report, this is not only xen, I have affected openvz vps too. Ah, sorry for the false start. Could you attach your /etc