On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 17:48, Ramiro Aceves <ea1...@gmail.com> 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
