bin/3170: vi freaks and dump core if user doesn't exist
Marc Olzheim
marcolz at stack.nl
Tue May 27 14:40:03 UTC 2008
The following reply was made to PR bin/3170; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz at stack.nl>
To: Bill Fenner <fenner at fenron.com>
Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz at stack.nl>, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/3170: vi freaks and dump core if user doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:32:59 +0200
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:29:16AM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
> > Well, the missing information seems to have to do with the terminal. I
> > managed to reproduce it now. The step that's missing in the description,
> > is that this only seems to happen on a virtual terminal on console.
>
> I first experienced it with an xterm running on a local X server;
> since it was so long ago I assume my terminal type was set to 'xterm'.
> Last week I reproduced it by ssh'ing in from a MacOS X 'Terminal'
> with my term type set to 'xterm-color'. I never had a terminal type
> on which I couldn't reproduce it, so didn't think to include that
> information in the bug; sorry for the oversight.
It's not triggered in a gnome-terminal, with TERM=xterm, but it is in
a 'real' xterm and still reproduceable on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE. :-/
Marc
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