On 26.11.13 Kevin Ryde (use...@zip.com.au) wrote: > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes:
Hi, > > I just tested to open with ‘see’ a file called a.thm on Icedove 17.0.9-2, > > and > > there was no infinite loop. Can you still reproduce the problem on your > > side ? > > One way this can happen is the way "see" is an update-alternatives for > "view". > > vim-common in /usr/lib/mime/packages/vim-common adds to /etc/mailcap > > text/*; view %s; edit=vi %s; compose=vi %s; needsterminal; priority=1 > > so "see" runs "view" which is "see" which runs "view", etc, endlessly > forking. > > To suffer this you have to have "see" as the update-alternatives for > view. That can happen if you don't have any vim, nvi, etc, or (if bug > 458691 is believed) then the "see" priority may have been higher in the > past. > I'm pretty sure that there is some flavour of vi on that box. Unfortunately the box is very seldom powered on, hence it will take a while until I can test. H. -- sigmentation fault
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