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Re: XFCE freeze when opening file over NFS with Vim editor





El 12/5/25 a las 20:21, David Brownlee escribió:
On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 17:48, Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

El 12/5/25 a las 13:14, Ramiro Aceves escribió:
Hello:

Yerterday I found this curious  "problem":

I have  a Debian GNU/Linux machine that exports a file system on the
local network using NFS.

I mount the filesystem on my NetBSD Thinkpad laptop with:

#mount 192.168.1.200:/nfsexport /root/directory

I start XFCE session in the NetBSD laptop. I open thunar file explorer,
it works fine surfing on the Debian machine files. I can edit them fine
from the NetBSD computer. It works fine with libreoffice files, for
example.

If I open a terminal and type "vim file.txt" it works just fine.

The problem arises when I right click on a txt file and try to open them
by mistake using Vim editor (right click, open with Vim). After doing
that, XFCE freezes hard, computer is alive and I end killing all XFCE
session to overcome it. I first tried to kill only vim process but it
did not solve the crash. Mounting point continues working fine, I
restart XFCE and it works normally.

Can it be due to the fact that vim command expect to work inside a
terminal window and not alone? Why XFCE freezes that way? Have to test
what happens with "vim -g", I am out home now.

Regards.

Ramiro.

Hello,

I confirm that as I suspected "/usr/pkg/bin/vim -g"  instead of
"/usr/pkg/bin/vim" works just fine.

Interesting...

Is the NFS mount significant in this case? Does it happen if you do
the same thing on a local file system?

If the issue does not occur on a Debian machine then there could be
some extra checks happening on Linux which does not happen on NetBSD

David

Hi David, thanks for answering.

In NetBSD on native filesystem, it hangs the same way, so NFS has nothing to do. In Debian on native filesystem, it does not hang if I configure /usr/bin/vim (but no terminal Vim appears)

Regards.






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