Re: Random loss of bash history

[Linda Walsh]

You DID read the release notes and changes from 4.2->4.3.

Someone had the bright idea that .. in 4.2, '0' meant no limit in
history (in bash and readline)... but in 4.3, '0' means 0 and throw
away history while negative values mean keep it all.

Perhaps you were hit by this brilliant new feature -- no doubt
a new POSIX blessing.


Darshit Shah wrote:
> I'm running Bash 4.3.30(1)-release on Arch Linux. Recently after I 
> rebooted by system I realized that all my Bash History had been erased. 
> The ~/.bash_history file existed, but it was completely empty.
>
> The situation occurred just now once again. I boot up my system and 
> realize that I have no bash history at all. The issue does not occur at 
> every boot, it's random and I am unable to correlate the two instances 
> in which this has happened to me.
>
> I haven't any idea as to how I should debug this problem to provide more 
> information. Could you please start out by helping me there?