vi is crashing with a segmentation fault when I try to open large (more than a couple of screens of data) files. -rwxr-xr-x 1 vpv users 11175 Jul 12 2003 CHANGELOG -rwxr-xr-x 1 vpv users 5516 Feb 17 2003 FAQ -rwxr-xr-x 1 vpv users 4903 Jul 12 2003 INSTALL -rwxr-xr-x 1 vpv users 14948 Jun 17 2000 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 vpv users 8202 Jul 12 2003 README -rwxr-xr-x 1 vpv users 10467 Jun 9 2003 STANDARD For example: vi INSTALL works vi README results in "README"Segmentation fault I don't know the exact cutoff as to size but I have experienced situations where I added lines using vi, wrote the file to disk, exited vi and was unable to open the file later with vi. The "sweet spot" seems to be between 8068 and 8208 where vi will edit a file sized at 8068 but segmentation faults on a file sized at 8028 (or larger) There is a thread that discusses this issue in the forums at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=133612&highlight=vi+fault The remedy discussed in bug 3207 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3207) does not work for this situation. I'm running a 2.6.x kernel amd reiserfs Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. vi filename (if file is more than 4k it crashes) 2. 3. Actual Results: "filename"Segmentation fault Expected Results: expected the vi editor to open and display the contents of the file
You didn't give us your 'emerge info' output.
does vi use /var/tmp as it's temporary file location? It appears from the strace that it does from the forum. /var/tmp/ is only root writable, perhaps the temporary directory should be /tmp to allow for user writes. Vince: can you include your strace here also.
emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" I am using vi as the root user (su - from non-root login) so I don't think that would be an issue. Additional info: attempting to include a file with :r will fail if the file is too big. You can :r any number of smaller files but you will receive the segmentation fault when you attempt to write the file I am not familiar with strace, is there a howto I can use to perform the strace?
strace results. This is the exact output, no cr or lf were added strace vi README execve("/usr/bin/vi", ["vi", "README"], [/* 28 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="gus", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x808d000 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40015000 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18052, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 18052, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40016000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 ]\1\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1304988, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1243172, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001b000 mmap2(0x40145000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x129) = 0x40145000 mmap2(0x40148000, 10276, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40148000 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40016000, 18052) = 0 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\373\236\345t\t\2a\310\255\305\225\261p\25%|\245,U\364"..., 32) = 32 close(3) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 getpid() = 27792 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8055880, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x400444d8}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGXFSZ, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8055880, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x400444d8}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 brk(0) = 0x808d000 rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x8055aa0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x400444d8}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8055940, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x400444d8}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x8055aa0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x400444d8}, {0x8055aa0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x400444d8}, 8) = 0 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 open("/etc/termcap", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "######## TERMINAL TYPE DESCRIPTI"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "rses suite; it differs from stoc"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "or their hardware\n# (notably DEC"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " support one attribute without m"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "The terminal enquire string <u9>"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "w hardware).\n#\n# For the termina"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " redistribute freely.\n# There ar"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "%p6%t;1%;%?%p7%t;8%;%?%p9%t;11%;"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "[24m:\\\n\t:tc=klone+sgr:\n\n# For co"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, ": Hugh Hansard\n# "..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "\\\n\t:li#25:tc=pcansi:\npcansi-33|p"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " *\n# *"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "1%{10}%-%p\'a\'%+%c%e%p1%d%p2%{255"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "xxyyzz~~:\\\n\t:ae=\\E(B:al=\\E[L:as="..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "ion with 43 lines and 132 cols:\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "H:mb=\\E[5m:\\\n\t:md=\\E[1m:me=\\E[m:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "223s\\224t\\225u\\226v\\227w\\230x\\23"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "\\\n\t:AB=\\E[4%p1%dm:AF=\\E[3%p1%dm:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " state (concept at beginning of "..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "$Op | $On | |"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "=\\E[?7l:RI=\\E[%dC:SA=\\E[?7h:UP=\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "y (or vt102-nsgr) is probably th"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "ys\n# at the top of the keyboard."..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "o fit entry within 1023 bytes)\n#"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "r=\\EM:ta=^I:ue=\\E[24m:up=\\E[A:us"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "m:sr=\\EM:st=\\EH:ta=^I:ts=\\E[1$}\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, ":am:es:hs:mi:ms:xn:xo:\\\n\t:co#80:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "13 Oct 1993\n# (vt400: string cap"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "?%p2%t;4%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p1%p3%|%"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "26~:F5=\\E[28~:\\\n\t:F6=\\E[29~:F7=\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "dded <rmam>/<smam> based on the "..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " CTRL-COMND is Emacs meta"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "th.magic.mb.ca> Sept 10 1995\nz34"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "E[11~:\\\n\t:k2=\\E[12~:k3=\\E[13~:k4"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "dP:DL=\\E[%dM:DO=\\E[%dB:IC=\\E[%d@"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, ":\\\n\t:km:\\\n\t:kb=^H:ku=\\EOA:kd=\\EO"..., 2048) = 2048 close(3) = 0 open("/etc/termcap", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "######## TERMINAL TYPE DESCRIPTI"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "rses suite; it differs from stoc"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "or their hardware\n# (notably DEC"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " support one attribute without m"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "The terminal enquire string <u9>"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "w hardware).\n#\n# For the termina"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " redistribute freely.\n# There ar"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "%p6%t;1%;%?%p7%t;8%;%?%p9%t;11%;"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "[24m:\\\n\t:tc=klone+sgr:\n\n# For co"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, ": Hugh Hansard\n# "..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "\\\n\t:li#25:tc=pcansi:\npcansi-33|p"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " *\n# *"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "1%{10}%-%p\'a\'%+%c%e%p1%d%p2%{255"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "xxyyzz~~:\\\n\t:ae=\\E(B:al=\\E[L:as="..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "ion with 43 lines and 132 cols:\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "H:mb=\\E[5m:\\\n\t:md=\\E[1m:me=\\E[m:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "223s\\224t\\225u\\226v\\227w\\230x\\23"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "\\\n\t:AB=\\E[4%p1%dm:AF=\\E[3%p1%dm:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " state (concept at beginning of "..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "$Op | $On | |"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "=\\E[?7l:RI=\\E[%dC:SA=\\E[?7h:UP=\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "y (or vt102-nsgr) is probably th"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "ys\n# at the top of the keyboard."..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "o fit entry within 1023 bytes)\n#"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "r=\\EM:ta=^I:ue=\\E[24m:up=\\E[A:us"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "m:sr=\\EM:st=\\EH:ta=^I:ts=\\E[1$}\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, ":am:es:hs:mi:ms:xn:xo:\\\n\t:co#80:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "13 Oct 1993\n# (vt400: string cap"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "?%p2%t;4%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p1%p3%|%"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "26~:F5=\\E[28~:\\\n\t:F6=\\E[29~:F7=\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "dded <rmam>/<smam> based on the "..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " CTRL-COMND is Emacs meta"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "th.magic.mb.ca> Sept 10 1995\nz34"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "E[11~:\\\n\t:k2=\\E[12~:k3=\\E[13~:k4"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "dP:DL=\\E[%dM:DO=\\E[%dB:IC=\\E[%d@"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, ":\\\n\t:km:\\\n\t:kb=^H:ku=\\EOA:kd=\\EO"..., 2048) = 2048 close(3) = 0 open("/etc/termcap", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "######## TERMINAL TYPE DESCRIPTI"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "rses suite; it differs from stoc"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "or their hardware\n# (notably DEC"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " support one attribute without m"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "The terminal enquire string <u9>"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "w hardware).\n#\n# For the termina"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " redistribute freely.\n# There ar"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "%p6%t;1%;%?%p7%t;8%;%?%p9%t;11%;"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "[24m:\\\n\t:tc=klone+sgr:\n\n# For co"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, ": Hugh Hansard\n# "..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "\\\n\t:li#25:tc=pcansi:\npcansi-33|p"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " *\n# *"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "1%{10}%-%p\'a\'%+%c%e%p1%d%p2%{255"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "xxyyzz~~:\\\n\t:ae=\\E(B:al=\\E[L:as="..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "ion with 43 lines and 132 cols:\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "H:mb=\\E[5m:\\\n\t:md=\\E[1m:me=\\E[m:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "223s\\224t\\225u\\226v\\227w\\230x\\23"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "\\\n\t:AB=\\E[4%p1%dm:AF=\\E[3%p1%dm:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, " state (concept at beginning of "..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "$Op | $On | |"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "=\\E[?7l:RI=\\E[%dC:SA=\\E[?7h:UP=\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "y (or vt102-nsgr) is probably th"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "ys\n# at the top of the keyboard."..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "o fit entry within 1023 bytes)\n#"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "r=\\EM:ta=^I:ue=\\E[24m:up=\\E[A:us"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "m:sr=\\EM:st=\\EH:ta=^I:ts=\\E[1$}\\"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, ":am:es:hs:mi:ms:xn:xo:\\\n\t:co#80:"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "13 Oct 1993\n# (vt400: string cap"..., 2048) = 2048 read(3, "?%p2%t;4%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p1%p3%|%"..., 2048) = 2048 stat64("/var/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=1952, ...}) = 0 open("/var/tmp/Ex0000027792", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_EXCL, 0600) = 3 open("README", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8202, ...}) = 0 read(4, "$Id:", 4) = 4 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 access("README", W_OK) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8202, ...}) = 0 read(4, "$Id: README,v 1.3 2003/07/12 09:"..., 131072) = 8202 read(4, "", 131072) = 0 fsync(4) = 0 close(4) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
I just built vi with the same cflags as Vince and everything works fine. I'm under kernel 2.6.6 though. Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Does this still occur in 2.6.8_rc1 or later?
Can't reproduce this one with newer kernels. If anyone can trigger it using 2.6.8_rc1 (*not* -mm) or later, please reopen.
