nvm: "nvm use" gets stuck in inifinite loop causing a fork bomb

• Operating system and version: Linux bash 4.2 terminal on web host

• nvm debug output:

$SHELL: /bin/bash
$SHLVL: 1
$HOME: /home/domainnamehere
$NVM_DIR: '$HOME/.nvm'
$PATH: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/lib/path-bin:/usr/local/jdk/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/cpanel/composer/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
$PREFIX: ''
$NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX: ''
$NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR: ''
$NVM_IOJS_ORG_MIRROR: ''
shell version: 'GNU bash, version 4.2.46(2)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)'
uname -a: 'Linux 3.10.0-962.3.2.lve1.5.24.9.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 13 08:24:50 EST 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux'
curl: /bin/curl, curl 7.29.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.29.0 NSS/3.36 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.4.3
wget: /bin/wget, GNU Wget 1.14 built on linux-gnu.
git: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/lib/path-bin/git, git version 2.19.1
grep: alias grep='grep --color=auto'
        /bin/grep (grep --color=auto), grep (GNU grep) 2.20
awk: /bin/awk, GNU Awk 4.0.2
sed: /bin/sed, sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
cut: /bin/cut, cut (GNU coreutils) 8.22
basename: /bin/basename, basename (GNU coreutils) 8.22
rm: /bin/rm, rm (GNU coreutils) 8.22
mkdir: /bin/mkdir, mkdir (GNU coreutils) 8.22
xargs: /bin/xargs, xargs (GNU findutils) 4.5.11

(Omitted the last lines as nvm is being started with --no-use)

• nvm ls output: v12.3.1

• How did you install nvm? (e.g. install script in readme, Homebrew): Using the install script curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash

• What steps did you perform? I’ve added --no-use to the end of my .bashrc so that I can at least access the terminal before the issue occurs, but once I have terminal access I tried calling nvm use default to load node

• What happened? the number of resources being used on the server ballooned to the point where I was only getting bash: fork: retry: no child processes and bash: fork: retry: resource temporarily unavailable

• What did you expect to happen? nvm use node without creating a fork bomb/depleting all server resources. The issue doesn’t occur when nvm use isn’t called, or if I don’t let nvm start at all

• Is there anything in any of your profile files (.bashrc, .bash_profile, .zshrc, etc) that modifies the PATH? .bash_profile contains the following:

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin

export PATH