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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:11:07 -0800
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.6-1 Vim now broken
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:39:19PM -0500, Brian DOT Kelly AT Empireblue DOT com wrote:
> 
>>I installed the new 1.5.6-1 and rebooted. I then went to edit a file with
>>vim. I changed one line of code and went to save the file. This is what
>>happened:
>>
>>- vi FA_lib.pm
>>'Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
>>Vim: preserving files...
>>
>>Basically I cannot use Vim to edit files - as it now stands.
> 
> 
> Editing files works fine, AFAICT.  Vim seems to be dying on exit.

I don't know if this will help with this problem, but I had the same issue 
under Windows XP Pro.  The problem occurred with files on which SYSTEM was 
explicitly granted Full Control in the Windows security settings.  When I 
removed that grant, I was able to edit and save the file correctly.

Dave


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