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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: bin/3170: vi freaks and dumps core if user doesn't exist
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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:
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