[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#353863: zsh: Same diagnostic

[Sebastien Desreux]

Package: zsh
Version: 4.3.11-3
Severity: normal


Hi,


For years I've head the following alias in $HOME/.alias, which is sourced in
$HOME/zshrc:

alias ubox='ssh seb at ubox'

Please note that the following remains true if the alias means anything else, 
for instance:

alias ubox='ls'

If I type "ubo" and then Tab, the terminal freezes. Nothing happens. The shell 
won't respond to ^C, ^D, ^Z, ~., even an order to close the window from a 
mouse.

'top' shows that the zsh process is at 100% CPU.
It's not killed by 'kill'.
It is killed by 'kill -9'.

I just upgraded from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze. The bug did not exist in 
Lenny.

There seems to be something specific about the string "ubo". If for instance I 
define

alias ibis='ls'

then typing "ibi" and hitting Tab works fine.


Best,
Sébastien.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (400, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.iso88591)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages zsh depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-10      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                   1:2.19-3       support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libncursesw5              5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages zsh recommends:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpcre3                      8.02-1.1   Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

Versions of packages zsh suggests:
pn  zsh-doc                       <none>     (no description available)

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