Re: zsh spinning on .zsh_history.LOCK on start

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 11,  7:39am, Florian Bruhin wrote:
} 
} When I delete the lockfile, it starts up normally. After waiting some
} while it does as well sometimes. Then the problem goes away, and some
} weeks later magically appears again.
} 
} Any ideas on what's going wrong there?

If your home directory is NFS or otherwise network-mounted, make sure
the clocks are in sync on all the hosts from which you might access it.

There is a patch in http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2014/msg00369.html
(zsh-workers/32580) which is *probably* the fix for your problem.