Resource temporarily unavailable crash in vi

[Lucas Holt]

I've experienced this bug on several occasions.  Each time I was using  
vi over a ssh session.  X11 was not loaded on the system.  I never did  
figure it out, and after a reinstall the problem did not occur often.   
I suspect it has something to do with virtual memory.


On Jun 12, 2004, at 1:17 PM, Benjamin Lutz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm lately experiencing the "Resource temporarily unavailable" crash  
> in vi
> a lot. I've had the same thing happen in other programs (eg, cvs,  
> while it
> was waiting for input), so it's not something that's specific to vi.
> Someone even had it happen with cat:
>
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2003-08/ 
> 0497.html
>
> I went about investigating this occurance. I added an abort() to
> strerror() so I would get a coredump before the error message is  
> printed.
> The results are a bit surprising:
>
>   #0  0x2814406f in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5
>   #1  0x28138da8 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.5
>   #2  0x281ae493 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.5
>   #3  0x28193be3 in strerror () from /lib/libc.so.5
>   #4  0x08053e15 in free ()
>   #5  0x0804bcc0 in free ()
>   #6  0x0804b929 in free ()
>   #7  0x08050b85 in free ()
>   #8  0x0807e331 in free ()
>   #9  0x0807d12e in free ()
>   #10 0x0807cb8c in free ()
>   #11 0x08053307 in free ()
>   #12 0x0804b063 in free ()
>   #13 0x0804a3b9 in free ()
>
> I then found these two postings that seem to point in the correct
> direction:
>
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2003-08/ 
> 0094.html
> http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0310/msg01101.html
>
> This vi thing has happened most often while i working in KDE's Konsole.
> I'd open a new window, switch back to the old one, and vi would have
> crashed. It also happens when I'm starting vi in a Konsole.
>
> Now, I think the problem (or one of the programs that make it  
> apparent) is
> Konsole. However, before filing a bug report, I'd like to get some more
> information. If you've ever encountered this bug, what were the
> circumstances? If you've researched it some, what did you find out?
>
> Greetings
> Benjamin Lutz
>

Lucas Holt
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