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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:30:36 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Diana Northup <diana@fatman.i-pi.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/3226: bin
Message-ID:  <199704080430.WAA04366@fatman.i-pi.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <199704080440.VAA15837@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         3226
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       vi died with a core dump
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr  7 21:40:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Diana Northup
>Organization:
Kenneth Ingham Consulting
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
>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.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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