Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 14:40:03 GMT From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/3170: vi freaks and dump core if user doesn't exist Message-ID: <200805271440.m4REe3JW024359@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/3170; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@fenron.com> Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/3170: vi freaks and dump core if user doesn't exist Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:32:59 +0200 On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:29:16AM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote: > > Well, the missing information seems to have to do with the terminal. I > > managed to reproduce it now. The step that's missing in the description, > > is that this only seems to happen on a virtual terminal on console. > > I first experienced it with an xterm running on a local X server; > since it was so long ago I assume my terminal type was set to 'xterm'. > Last week I reproduced it by ssh'ing in from a MacOS X 'Terminal' > with my term type set to 'xterm-color'. I never had a terminal type > on which I couldn't reproduce it, so didn't think to include that > information in the bug; sorry for the oversight. It's not triggered in a gnome-terminal, with TERM=xterm, but it is in a 'real' xterm and still reproduceable on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE. :-/ Marc
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