ZSH /etc/zsh/zshrc - function definition file not found

I installed zsh and oh-my-zsh across multiple users, and I saw a post about symlinking /root/.zshrc and /root/.oh-my-zsh with $HOME path variable so all users would have the same config files.

ln -s $HOME/.oh-my-zsh /root/.oh-my-zsh
ln -s $HOME/.zshrc /root/.zshrc

I thought of deleting zsh along with oh-my-zsh for all users and start fresh since I had not configured any of the users .zshrc to the extend I wanted to keep them.

I was a bit hasty with deleting some files, and I think I accidently deleted something that wasn't part of the apt zsh installation. Since I had a lot of errors after installing zsh again on my root user.

Now I have installed zsh as my normal user jonas and I went into root and when I try to su jonas it says /etc/zsh/zshrc:112: compinit: function definition file not found.

I can go into zsh shell, but it has no features. Everything is white, even though I have set up my .zshrc file.

I noticed in my etc/passwd that the jonas user used zsh so I changed it to bash.

Inside the jonas user, it seems like the system knows about zsh but is missing something. I can go into zsh but it just has no features.

however this is a bit confusing

jonas@L480:/etc/zsh$ zsh
/etc/zsh/zshrc:112: compinit: function definition file not found
L480% echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

jonas@L480:/$ zsh
/etc/zsh/zshrc:112: compinit: function definition file not found
L480% pwd
/
L480% bash
jonas@L480:/$ 

I have tried uninstalling with sudo apt-get --purge remove zsh and installing agian with sudo apt install zsh but the issue persists. zsh does have some default functionality like the suggestion navigation.

when zsh as root I get

L480 jonas # zsh
/etc/zsh/zshrc:112: compinit: function definition file not found
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh:69: compinit: function definition file not found
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/lib/completion.zsh:76: bashcompinit: function definition file not found
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/lib/directories.zsh:32: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/lib/termsupport.zsh:109: add-zsh-hook: function definition file not found
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/lib/termsupport.zsh:110: add-zsh-hook: function definition file not found
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/lib/theme-and-appearance.zsh:2: colors: function definition file not found
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:19: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:89: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:104: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:109: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:119: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:129: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:138: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:144: command not found: compdef
/home/jonas/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh:229: is-at-least: function definition file not found

This is my etc/zsh/zshrc file

# /etc/zsh/zshrc: system-wide .zshrc file for zsh(1).
#
# This file is sourced only for interactive shells. It
# should contain commands to set up aliases, functions,
# options, key bindings, etc.
#
# Global Order: zshenv, zprofile, zshrc, zlogin
READNULLCMD=${PAGER:-/usr/bin/pager}
export FPATH="/usr/local/share/zsh/functions:$FPATH"
# An array to note missing features to ease diagnosis in case of problems.
typeset -ga debian_missing_features
if [[ -z "${DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES-}" ]] && [[ "$TERM" != 'emacs' ]]
then typeset -A key key=( BackSpace "${terminfo[kbs]}" Home "${terminfo[khome]}" End "${terminfo[kend]}" Insert "${terminfo[kich1]}" Delete "${terminfo[kdch1]}" Up "${terminfo[kcuu1]}" Down "${terminfo[kcud1]}" Left "${terminfo[kcub1]}" Right "${terminfo[kcuf1]}" PageUp "${terminfo[kpp]}" PageDown "${terminfo[knp]}" ) function bind2maps () { local i sequence widget local -a maps while [[ "$1" != "--" ]]; do maps+=( "$1" ) shift done shift sequence="${key[$1]}" widget="$2" [[ -z "$sequence" ]] && return 1 for i in "${maps[@]}"; do bindkey -M "$i" "$sequence" "$widget" done } bind2maps emacs -- BackSpace backward-delete-char bind2maps viins -- BackSpace vi-backward-delete-char bind2maps vicmd -- BackSpace vi-backward-char bind2maps emacs -- Home beginning-of-line bind2maps viins vicmd -- Home vi-beginning-of-line bind2maps emacs -- End end-of-line bind2maps viins vicmd -- End vi-end-of-line bind2maps emacs viins -- Insert overwrite-mode bind2maps vicmd -- Insert vi-insert bind2maps emacs -- Delete delete-char bind2maps viins vicmd -- Delete vi-delete-char bind2maps emacs viins vicmd -- Up up-line-or-history bind2maps emacs viins vicmd -- Down down-line-or-history bind2maps emacs -- Left backward-char bind2maps viins vicmd -- Left vi-backward-char bind2maps emacs -- Right forward-char bind2maps viins vicmd -- Right vi-forward-char # Make sure the terminal is in application mode, when zle is # active. Only then are the values from $terminfo valid. if (( ${+terminfo[smkx]} )) && (( ${+terminfo[rmkx]} )); then function zle-line-init () { emulate -L zsh printf '%s' ${terminfo[smkx]} } function zle-line-finish () { emulate -L zsh printf '%s' ${terminfo[rmkx]} } zle -N zle-line-init zle -N zle-line-finish else for i in {s,r}mkx; do (( ${+terminfo[$i]} )) || debian_missing_features+=($i) done unset i fi unfunction bind2maps
fi # [[ -z "$DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES" ]] && [[ "$TERM" != 'emacs' ]]
zstyle ':completion:*:sudo:*' command-path /usr/local/sbin \ /usr/local/bin \ /usr/sbin \ /usr/bin \ /sbin \ /bin \ /usr/X11R6/bin
(( ${+aliases[run-help]} )) && unalias run-help
autoload -Uz run-help
# If you don't want compinit called here, place the line
# skip_global_compinit=1
# in your $ZDOTDIR/.zshenv or $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile
if [[ -z "$skip_global_compinit" ]]; then autoload -U compinit compinit
fi

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