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 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:=$(ulimit -c 0;id -un 2>&-||print \?)}@${HOSTNAME%%.

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 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) libc.so.6 => /l

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 Ma

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 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. The only

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 wrote: > Terho Uotila wrote: > > Jonathan Nieder 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 so

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 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 atta

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 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 ot

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