current shell's bash history lost on reboot

[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 at f21 ~]# cat .bash_history | wc -l
> 2
> [root at f21 ~]# history | wc -l
> 123
> [root at f21 ~]# reboot
> Connection to 172.24.4.228 closed by remote host.
> Connection to 172.24.4.228 closed.
> [root at localhost ~(keystone_admin)]# 
> [root at localhost ~(keystone_admin)]# ssh -i key1.pem
> fedora at 172.24.4.228
> Last login: Thu Nov 20 18:54:48 2014 from 172.24.4.225
> [fedora at f21 ~]$ 
> [fedora at f21 ~]$ sudo su -
> [root at 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).

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// Mike 
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