From diana@fatman.i-pi.com Mon Apr 7 21:30:45 1997 Received: from fatman.i-pi.com (fatman.i-pi.com [198.49.217.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA15370 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from diana@localhost) by fatman.i-pi.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA04366; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:30:36 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199704080430.WAA04366@fatman.i-pi.com> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:30:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Diana Northup Reply-To: diana@fatman.i-pi.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 3226 >Category: bin >Synopsis: vi died with a core dump >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 7 21:40:01 PDT 1997 >Closed-Date: Sat Aug 23 16:21:49 MEST 1997 >Last-Modified: Sat Aug 23 16:22:23 MEST 1997 >Originator: Diana Northup >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Kenneth Ingham Consulting >Environment: The standard vi from the distribution; the complete hardware config is available if it would help. >Description: Working in the file and got the error: Error: unable to retrieve line XXX. The next thing I did ended up with vi dying with a segmentation fault. It created a recover file, and doing vi -r on it dies with the same error, but on a different (earlier) line. >How-To-Repeat: Get the recover files and try to recover. Take a look at the (remains of the) file. Relevant files are available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.i-pi.com/pub and the files are: nsfcur.tex the original, un-mangled file. recover.004078 one of the vi recovery files vi.a04078 the other of the vi recovery files vi.core the core dump from one of the deaths. >Fix: None known. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->mpp Responsible-Changed-By: mpp Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Apr 8 13:07:38 PDT 1997 Responsible-Changed-Why: I'll take care of getting this information to Kirk. From: Mike Pritchard To: diana@fatman.i-pi.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/3226: bin Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 13:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Diana Northup wrote: > > Working in the file and got the error: > Error: unable to retrieve line XXX. > The next thing I did ended up with vi dying with a segmentation fault. > > It created a recover file, and doing vi -r on it dies with the same > error, but on a different (earlier) line. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Get the recover files and try to recover. Take a look at the (remains of the) > file. > > Relevant files are available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.i-pi.com/pub > and the files are: > > nsfcur.tex the original, un-mangled file. > recover.004078 one of the vi recovery files > vi.a04078 the other of the vi recovery files > vi.core the core dump from one of the deaths. Can you please change the modes of these files so that they are all accessible? I was unable to ftp them due to them having the wrong permissions. Thanks. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn" Responsible-Changed-From-To: mpp->freebsd-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: steve Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Aug 16 16:37:49 PDT 1997 Responsible-Changed-Why: Return this back to the orphaned pool of PRs. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: joerg State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 23 16:21:49 MEST 1997 State-Changed-Why: PR is stale, the originator never responded to the feedback request as it seems. >Unformatted: