From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 10:05:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C03416A4CE for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 10:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maze.meitech.com (maze.meitech.com [69.33.133.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A240943D1D for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 10:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tjg@meitech.com) Received: from ripley.meitech.com (ripley.meitech.com [192.168.100.12]) by maze.meitech.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4RH4rYi000880 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 17:04:53 GMT (envelope-from tjg@meitech.com) Received: by RIPLEY with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 27 May 2004 13:08:22 -0400 Message-ID: <86ECB35C998DCC49AD435A099AFACCD1D9C929@RIPLEY> From: "Gustafson, Tim" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:08:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on maze.meitech.com Subject: Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:05:29 -0000 I am getting the following error in "vi" pretty consistently: Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable Usually I get this at every attempt I make to run vi. Every now and then I'll somehow manage to stay in vi however long I want. It seems that if it's going to bomb, it bombs in the first 30 seconds of running the program. Otherwise, it doesn't happen at all. No other programs do this, as far as I know. I have tried installing the nvi-devel port to see if maybe this is fixed in a new version, but it does the exact same thing. I even rebuilt the kernel and world after a cvsup to make sure something wasn't broken, but that didn't work wither. I have tried switching shells from bash to just sh to see if it's related somehow to bash, but that did not have any effect either. I am currently running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p8 i386 This problem pops up about once a month and then seems to go away by itself after a few days, but I would really like to know what is causing it. I have searched the FreeBSD mailing list archives and found a few references to changing some flag in my shell, and I followed their instructions, but it did not help. Obviously, it is a real pain in the neck since I use vi exclusively and I despise having to us pico for anything. If anyone has any idea how I can fix this, I would really appreciate it. Tim Tim Gustafson MEI Technology Consulting, Inc tjg@meitech.com (516) 379-0001 Office (516) 480-1870 Mobile/Emergencies http://www.meitech.com/