Atuin stop working after 1st command in the terminal

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Good evening i just saw few video sponsoring atuin and i liked so i decided to give it a try.
The machine is an Ubuntu 22 vm, on hyper-v advanced session. Just using local db, with starship and zsh.

It imported my old bash history after installing and restarting terminal, pressin up arrow shown the atuin history then i selected “ls -l” and resulted with an error like “is atuin daemon even running?”

After that, every command i run, is normally recorded in the history, but recalling them with “up arrow” or “ctrl+R” only works if it is, the very 1st action, after reopening a new terminal. Other stuff like ctrl+O + ctrl+D, atuin search -i, atuin stats, everrything is apparently working fine, just recalling an historic command seems broken.

Any suggestion before restoring the VM and moving on?

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UPDATE: ok, i haven’t solved it yet, but it seems the problem is using zsh only, if i switch to bash it works like a charm.

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Hi @GenXHero,
By any chance, were you using tmux when this happened?

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nope, it’s a plain ubuntu 22.04 setup with standard gnome terminal (and kitty installed later with very same behaviour) i have installed only starship (tried removing it with no results)

I isolated the malfunction to zsh, with bash works like a charm, it’s possible i have to tune zsh.. was using a vm as a test before going live on my macbook (which use zsh)