On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomozov@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Manuel Reimer Manuel.Spam@nurfuerspam.de wrote:

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Hello,

if I access one of my systems via "ssh" and try to use "vi" there, then it immediately returns with exit status "1".

System is an up-to-date 32bit ArchLinux system.

I've attached the strace output of my try to run "vi" to this mail.

Can someone see there what could have happened? Reinstalling "vi" didn't fix this for me...

Thank you very much in advance

strace has following lines near the end

write(1, "\33[?1049h\33[39;1H"/var/tmp" ", 26) = 26 write(1, "\33[7mValue too large for defined "..., 41) = 41 write(1, "\33[27m\n", 6) = 6

It cut the second part of the message "Value too large for defined...". Just run vi without strace and check vi output/logs, most likely the error will be self-descriptive.

Most likely it says "Value too large for defined data type" and probably relates to the ansi escape 1049 above which directs the terminal to switch to an alternate buffer. Now as a shot in the dark - I'm really just taking a bold guess here, because I had terminal problems in ssh without -t before - the shell within ssh can't figure out the terminal's size and gets a dummy value like -1, which is far too much memory to allocate in any context.

I'm really interested if passing -t to ssh will fix the issue.

cheers! mar77i