X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:07:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.5: vim SEGV on write of /etc/hosts Message-ID: <20100624080711.GU8163@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C212153.8010804@acm.org> <27D7F4C907BCB14FAF95CC4E25AB1FE6AF5575@ex2.AdBriteInc.local> <20100623071940.GJ8163@calimero.vinschen.de> <27D7F4C907BCB14FAF95CC4E25AB1FE6AF5577@ex2.AdBriteInc.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <27D7F4C907BCB14FAF95CC4E25AB1FE6AF5577@ex2.AdBriteInc.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Jun 23 14:42, Bill Ross wrote: > >> Whenever I vi /etc/hosts and write a change I get > >> > >> -bash-3.2$ vi /etc/hosts > >> Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV > >> > >> Tho the change gets written ok. It seems to have started with 1.7.5. > No > >> problem seen with other files. > > >Corinna: > > No such problem here. Can you create an strace, please? > > Started 'vi /etc/hosts', got pid: > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND > 4876 6016 4876 5232 0 13225 14:37:18 > /usr/bin/vim-nox > -bash-3.2$ strace -o vi_trace -p 4876 > [Did the :w to write a change] > Windows process 5232 attached > Windows process 5232 detached > > Trace attached. Thanks. The execption occurs in vim, not in the Cygwin DLL so it looks like some vim bug. I'm not going to debug this further for now. Vim is going 7.3 upstream in the next couple of weeks anyway. > > Btw., your /etc/group file needs regenerating. > > Thanks, replaced it w/ result of 'mkgroup -l'. Hope that's right :-) Only if you're not a domain user... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple