current shell's bash history lost on reboot

[Dusty Mabe]

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@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?

If you guys can confirm you are having this behavior then I will open
a report. Alos please see [1] [2] where suse was having a similar problem.

Dusty

[1] - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671719
[2] - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652633

[Kushal Das]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Dusty Mabe  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@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

[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  wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Dusty Mabe  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@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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[Joe Brockmeier]

On 11/25/2014 01:36 AM, Kushal Das wrote:
> I can not reproduce this in a few images I tried.

Which images?

If it's gone in later images, then we can close it.

Best,

jzb

[Mike Ruckman]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:02:37AM -0500, Dusty Mabe 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@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?
>
> If you guys can confirm you are having this behavior then I will open
> a report. Alos please see [1] [2] where suse was having a similar problem.
>
> Dusty
>
> [1] - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671719
> [2] - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652633

I've seen this on cloud images as well as workstation. Dusty has been
locating and compiling information on this. It's been seen quite a few
places.

Even when I switch to zsh history info wasn't saved (did this in a RC5
cloud image locally and on EC2).