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From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
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Subject: Re: bin/3170: vi freaks and dump core if user doesn't exist
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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