Re: current shell's bash history lost on reboot

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I rebooted a VM running Atomic and lost bash history, but I was unaware
that reboots were supposed to *preserve* bash history! I thought that was
expected behavior - a violent end to a process wouldn't necessarily allow
its buffers to be flushed.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Kushal Das <kushaldas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Dusty Mabe
> <dusty(a)dustymabe.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > The other day during the Atomic Test Day jzb and I noticed that we
>  > were losing bash history (seemingly randomly). Today I dug into it a
>  > bit more. If you reboot a machine from a bash session then you will
>  > lose all of your history for that session. Note the following is from
>  > the F21 Cloud image:
>  >
>  > [root@f21 ~]# cat .bash_history | wc -l
>  > 2
>  > [root@f21 ~]# history | wc -l
>  > 123
>  > [root@f21 ~]# reboot
>  > Connection to 172.24.4.228 closed by remote host.
>  > Connection to 172.24.4.228 closed.
>  > [root@localhost ~(keystone_admin)]#
>  > [root@localhost ~(keystone_admin)]# ssh -i key1.pem
>  > fedora(a)172.24.4.228
>  > Last login: Thu Nov 20 18:54:48 2014 from 172.24.4.225
>  > [fedora@f21 ~]$
>  > [fedora@f21 ~]$ sudo su -
>  > [root@f21 ~]# history | wc -l
>  > 3
>  >
>  > Has anyone else seen this? Is there an existing bug report?
>  >
>  I can not reproduce this in a few images I tried.
>
>  Kushal
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