Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:58:05 -0600 From: peter%ski.austin.ibm.com@tkg.com (Peter Jeffe) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi problems Message-ID: <9602061758.AA18650@ski.austin.ibm.com>
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> > I'm getting an illegal instruction whenever I use "w" or "/" in vi. > > This is on a 486 with 8 megs. Is this a known problem or do I need > > to dig around a bit? Is there a better way to find out known bugs > > without bothering you guys? Thanks! > > > > -- peter jeffe peter@tkg.com jeffe@austin.ibm.com http://tkg.com > > This is probably an installation problem at your part. > Do you have swap space? do you have /tmp? Which version > of OS? how did you install it?Under what circumstances does it > happen? Editing an empty file/new file?Are you in single user > mode or multi user mode? Are your file systems checked OK? > > Is your hardware OK? (memory, disk?) > > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de Well, no other programs seem to have any problems, but I haven't made an exhaustive search. I'm not sure how an illegal instruction core dump could be caused by an install problem, but here goes: 30 megs swap. /tmp is fine. 2.0.5. Installed from cd-rom under dos (from dos filesystem). Happens editing any file whenever I do a "w" or "W", either by themselves to move the cursor or in an editing command like "cw". Happened under generic kernel as well as customized one. Multi-user mode. Fielsystems check fine. Hardware ok as far as I know (new WD 1280 drive, never had memory problems). I didn't bother debugging the core since I thought for sure this must be a known problem. If it isn't, I'll just have to investigate. Thanks for any insights. -- peter jeffe peter@tkg.com jeffe@austin.ibm.com http://tkg.com
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