oh-my-zsh does not start on mac

Question

I installed oh-my-zsh as suggested in http://ohmyz.sh/. FYI,

[~]$ zsh --version
zsh 5.0.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.0)
[~]$ echo $SHELL
/bin/zsh
[~]$ ls .oh-my-zsh/         


        

Answer 1

Also, I tried to change my default shell to zsh: [~]$ chsh -s /bin/zsh

try

chsh -s $zsh

that worked fine for me