Mmmm... you could be heading for an HDD problem.
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Howard.
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> I'm sitting pretty quitely paging through a document in vim and
> the poor thing barfs:
>
> Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
> Vim: Double signal, exiting
> Close error on swap file
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Any ideas why? Bad block in the swap area?
>
> A tribute to Linux: I snooped around, rm'd up the core dump,
> checked a few other processes, and went back into vi with
> no probs. Total interruption time: 2 minutes (and a scratched
> skull). 48 hours later, the box is still chugging along with
> narry a worry, no reboot, xstart or other panic.
> Now let's see W2K do that!
>
> -rickw
>
> --
> Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited
>
>
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