current shell's bash history lost on reboot

Dusty Mabe dusty at dustymabe.com
Sun Nov 23 15:02:37 UTC 2014


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


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