From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Dec 29 16:50:06 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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 9E1B416A41F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:50:06 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from clear@alum.mit.edu)
Received: from newmx1.fast.net (newmx1.fast.net [209.92.1.31])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A6A843D53
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:50:05 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from clear@alum.mit.edu)
Received: (qmail 24307 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2005 16:50:04 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO alum.mit.edu) ([207.8.186.46]) (envelope-sender
	<clear@alum.mit.edu>) by newmx1.fast.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; 29 Dec 2005 16:50:04 -0000
Message-ID: <43B413BB.1C80C93D@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:50:03 -0500
From: Jed Clear <clear@alum.mit.edu>
Organization: Dis
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en,pdf
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: ex/vi: Error: Log file: No such file or directory (solved)
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:50:06 -0000

For the record[1]:

After a non OS drive hardware[2] failure I started getting the following
when trying to vi a file as a non root user:

	ex/vi: Error: Log file: No such file or directory

I spent time chasing a few other things since chunks of /var and /etc
were also missing[3].  However, I was ultimately forced to use the
source, Luke.  What I found was that my non root account had $TMPDIR set
to a directory that was on the defunct disk.

-Jed

[1] So Google will show up something less useless in the future.
[2] The second Maxtor Atlas 10K IV to fail on me.
[3] Possibly related to the SCSI controller aborting.