Random messages in terminal: mv: cannot move...: No such file or directory

[protist]

Occasionally, I randomly get the following message on my terminal:

mv: cannot move '/home/protist/.z.24161' to '/home/protist/.z': No such file or directory

This doesn't necessarily occur after cd-ing; most recently it occurred after ls. There is a file at ~/.z, with user write/read permissions, and recently modified, presumably by z.

I'm not sure if relevant, but I can also see numerous other files with a similar name.

$ ls -al ~/.z{,.*}
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist    33436 Nov 20 19:32 .z
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist    19561 Aug 15  2017 .z.10923
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist        0 Feb  8  2018 .z.11675
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist    19561 Aug 15  2017 .z.16124
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist    25188 Feb 12  2018 .z.23515
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist        0 Feb  8  2018 .z.25040
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist    25188 Feb 12  2018 .z.29510
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist        0 Feb  8  2018 .z.5317
-rw-r--r-- 1 protist protist    19561 Aug 15  2017 .z.6607

I'm running the latest version, z 1.11 with zsh 5.7.1 on Arch Linux.

EDIT:
I got a different error after another ls.

mv: cannot stat '/home/protist/.z.3141': No such file or directory                                          

It looks like the shell can't find the source file ~/.z.3141, which is true; it doesn't exist. In contrast the original error reported above (i.e. mv: cannot move 'foo' to 'bar': No such file or directory) appears when the target directory cannot be found (and perhaps other situations?).

[bklaase]

Same issue. On multiple devices. Also using arch + zsh with same versions as Protist.

[protist]

After this bug eating a half-typed command once too often, I've moved to z.lua, which doesn't have this bug, seems a lot more powerful, is faster, and is still in active development.

[m3hdad]

any updates on this bug?

[bklaase]

For me it is fixed a few updates ago. It was some racing condition that they resolved. You can reliably reproduce by holding the key in a pre-fix version.

see: #247