Bug 88458

Summary:	vim hangs
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael Redinger <michael.redinger>
Component:	vim	Assignee:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	menthos
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Description Michael Redinger 2003-04-10 07:52:36 UTC

on some 7.3 and 8.0 systems (actually all I tried) I'm seeing a strange
vi problem that's 100% reproduceable for me:

- open an xterm
- run vi
- close the xterm without exiting vi properly

Now vim immediately uses all of the available CPU. It can only be killed
using kill -9.

It seems that this happens since updating the kernel and glibc.
kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0
glibc-2.3.2-4.80

However, this also happens on some 7.3 systems where I only upgraded
glibc:
glibc-2.2.5-43
kernel-2.4.18-17.7.x

It does not happen on one 7.2 box where I'm still using the old glibc:
glibc-2.2.4-31

It also doesn't happen on a Red Hat 9 system (without glibc updates):
glibc-2.3.2-11.9
kernel-2.4.20-8

It still works fine after updating to glibc-2.3.2-27.9


I then attached to one vim process with strace. I got thousands of lines
like this:

--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---


That's quite an issue on multi-user systems ...

Comment 1 Michael Redinger 2003-04-10 07:54:08 UTC

Oh, there's a strace output from Brent Nordquist available:

http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/vim-strace.out

Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2003-06-20 11:49:01 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83700 ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:52:35 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.