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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium
New issue 368 by [email protected]: Temporary file creation
non-comprehensively fails when all the variations are taken for the name
https://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=368
I am always getting this even if I remove that file: E138: Can't write
viminfo file /home/lpapp/.viminfo!
After a lot of fiddling with chmod/chown/rm as suggested by some Google
search results, I noticed that they had not helped me with this. Thereby, I
went for running vim through strace!
I do not know why, but I ended up having the following files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 lpapp admin 0 May 22 18:48 /home/lpapp/.viminfa.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 22541 May 15 18:00 /home/lpapp/.viminfb.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 May 20 18:47 /home/lpapp/.viminfc.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 12288 May 12 20:04 /home/lpapp/.viminfd.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 20480 May 12 20:04 /home/lpapp/.viminfe.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 May 1 19:41 /home/lpapp/.viminff.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 16384 Apr 13 11:23 /home/lpapp/.viminfg.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 Apr 13 11:23 /home/lpapp/.viminfh.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 Apr 2 20:38 /home/lpapp/.viminfi.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 Mar 6 12:23 /home/lpapp/.viminfj.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 Mar 4 20:32 /home/lpapp/.viminfk.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 12428 Mar 4 11:28 /home/lpapp/.viminfl.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 Mar 3 19:00 /home/lpapp/.viminfm.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 12218 Mar 2 20:28 /home/lpapp/.viminfn.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 744 May 26 12:05 /home/lpapp/.viminfo
-rw------- 1 lpapp lpapp 0 Jan 23 08:59 /home/lpapp/.viminfo.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 10841 Feb 27 19:02 /home/lpapp/.viminfp.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 8497 Feb 26 20:44 /home/lpapp/.viminfq.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 11327 Feb 26 13:18 /home/lpapp/.viminfr.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 9271 Feb 24 17:26 /home/lpapp/.viminfs.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 lpapp admin 14192 Feb 24 17:26 /home/lpapp/.viminft.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 14931 Feb 6 20:14 /home/lpapp/.viminfu.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp lpapp 19035 Feb 3 20:43 /home/lpapp/.viminfv.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 Jan 28 20:25 /home/lpapp/.viminfw.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 0 Jan 26 19:01 /home/lpapp/.viminfx.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp lpapp 4096 Jan 21 20:13 /home/lpapp/.viminfy.tmp
-rw------- 1 lpapp admin 8192 Jan 20 19:02 /home/lpapp/.viminfz.tmp
vim tries to merge the existing .viminfo with what it is writing, so it
tries to create a temporary file. However, it will not override the
existing temporary files. Therefore, it will try to find a name, but it
will not succeed as all the possible options are taken, already.
The way to fix this is: rm ~/.viminf*.tmp, but I only figured this out
using strace. It would have been much better if vim could report the exact
issue right away.
Attachments:
bugreport.txt 124 KB
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