Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:45:22 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/3170: vi freaks and dumps core if user doesn't exist Message-ID: <199704012245.WAA05148@sundae.parc.xerox.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199704020210.SAA26053@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 3170
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: vi freaks and dump core if user doesn't exist
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 1 18:10:02 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bill Fenner
>Organization:
Xerox
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
Stock 2.2-RELEASE install, running NIS with a Sun as an NIS server.
>Description:
I killed ypbind a while ago to test something and forgot to restart it.
I just started editing a file from mail and got:
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
Information on user id 5275 not found.
Modifications not recoverable if the session fails
then vi locked up for a while (possibly dumping core), and then
presumably exited since mail said:
Fatal error in process.
(continue)
(e.g. linefeed with no carraige return), and now doesn't accept normal
input. I can't get any of the ~ commands to work, following either a
^M or ^L, but ^C^C did manage to get me out of mail.
vi clearly died at that point:
pid 4975 (vi), uid 5275: exited on signal 11
>How-To-Repeat:
I don't know if it's as simple as running yp, then killing ypbind and
editing a file. I doubt it.
>Fix:
Unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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