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order of convergence of the conditional entropy

Let $X_n$ be a random variable distributed on $A_n:=\{1, \ldots, n\}$ and $g_n\colon A_n \to A_n$ such that $\Pr\big(X_n \neq g_n(X_n)\big) \to 0$. Putting $Y_n=g(X_n)$ then by Fano's inequality $$\frac{H(X_n\mid Y_n)}{\log n} \to 0,$$ which can be written $$\frac{H(X_n\mid Y_n)}{H(X_n)} \to 0 \qquad (\ast)$$ in the particular case when $X_n$ is uniformly distributed on $A_n$.

I'm looking for a case for which $H(X_n)\to \infty$ and $(\ast)$ fails.