Re: Ongoing vi issues under NetBSD-7 on the RPi ....

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <55202F95.4090006%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
>On 04/04/15 10:02, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <551FF533.7030202%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
>> William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
>>> On 04/04/15 09:06, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>>> In article <551FECAC.1060701%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
>>>> William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
>>>>> .... I am having ongoing problems using vi under NetBSD-7 on my RPi. The
>>>>> problems are not as severe as before (crashing my ssh login, including
>>>>> the rxvt terminal window on the remote box (!!!!!)), but are irritating.
>>>>> When paging down, I often get artifacts from previous text interleaved
>>>>> in the program source I am viewing. A 'ctrl-l' clears everything up, but
>>>>> is inconvenient & raises trust issues w/ how the combo of
>>>>> vi/NetBSD-7/rxvt/FreeBSD 9.3R is working together to process text. I am
>>>>> not planning any heavy developement on this box, but this is still
>>>>> irritating, since I use vi on various config files, etc. I haven't
>>>>> detected any problems w/ the results so far, for the record, but am
>>>>> still antsy about it .... TIA & keep up the good work ....
>>>>>
>>>> Perhaps $TERM is not setup properly? What is it on your machine?
>> Xmm, can you also try a plain xterm (not that I think it could make a
>> difference)... Also can you describe what's going on? Is vi core-dumping?
>> Is it displaying the screen improperly? Are there any error messages?
>>
>> christos
>>
>
>Yesterday it was crashing the whole login session, see below from the 
>remote machine (FreeBSD 9.3R):
>
>Apr  3 16:21:20 kabini1 kernel: pid 1211 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 16:22:19 kabini1 su: wam to root on /dev/pts/10
>Apr  3 16:24:26 kabini1 kernel: pid 25376 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 16:24:47 kabini1 su: wam to root on /dev/pts/10
>Apr  3 16:28:15 kabini1 kernel: pid 25547 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 16:29:03 kabini1 su: wam to root on /dev/pts/10
>Apr  3 16:31:06 kabini1 kernel: pid 25785 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 16:31:30 kabini1 su: wam to root on /dev/pts/10
>Apr  3 16:55:13 kabini1 kernel: pid 25973 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 17:00:19 kabini1 kernel: pid 27502 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 17:00:51 kabini1 kernel: pid 27833 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 17:04:16 kabini1 kernel: pid 27873 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 18:16:16 kabini1 kernel: pid 28081 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 18:19:01 kabini1 kernel: pid 32682 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>Apr  3 18:19:41 kabini1 kernel: pid 32844 (rxvt), uid 1110: exited on 
>signal 11
>
>
>It definitely doesn't display correctly when you either page down 
>(ctrl-f') or scroll down (ctrl-y), shows artifacts from the text that 
>was in the rxvt window before vi was invoked. That is cleared up w/ 
>'ctrl-l', & clears up AOK. I can't locate any error messages from the 
>RPi, or any evidence of a vi core dump, where do I look besides my 
>messages file ?
>

But this is rxvt crashing... Not nvi? Is rxvt running locally?
Is kabini1 the FreeBSD machine?

christos