zsh error on startup: /etc/zsh/zshrc:unalias:43: no such hash table element: run-help

[x]

Binary package hint: zsh

installed zsh on hardy:

apt-cache policy zsh
zsh:
  Installiert: 4.3.4-24ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 4.3.4-24ubuntu1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 4.3.4-24ubuntu1 0

on startup i get the error:

$ zsh
/etc/zsh/zshrc:unalias:42: no such hash table element: run-help

in /etc/zsh/zshrc i changed line 42 from 'unalias run-help'
to '[[ -e $(alias run-help) ]] && unalias run-help' and it works.

patch attached

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Looking at the attachments in this bug report, I noticed that "Patch for /etc/zsh/zshrc" was not flagged as a patch. A patch contains changes to an Ubuntu package that will resolve a bug and this attachment is one! Subsequently, I've checked the patch flag for it. In the future when submitting patches please use the patch checkbox as there are some Launchpad searches that use this feature. Thanks for your contribution Thilo Six!

[x (xk2c-deactivatedaccount)]

After using the patch above it doesn't seem to work right.

this one is better.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

This is probably caused by you setting up / changing run-help in your ~/.zshrc.
Can you confirm this?

I suggest using the following fix instead of your proposed patch:
unalias run-help &>/dev/null

Also, you might want to consider using this:
% cat ~/.zshenv
setopt noglobalrcs

This would only source your ~/.zshrc, but not the files installed by the distribution.