Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nvi
% lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
% apt-cache policy nvi
nvi:
Installed: 1.81.6-5
Candidate: 1.81.6-5
Version table:
*** 1.81.6-5 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
At times nvi will create large numbers of entries in /var/tmp/vi.recover -
other times it does not. I have not found a way to trigger this.
I just discovered this by running out of inodes (9.04 installed on new
notebook two weeks ago). So many that rm -rf ./* failed with argument
list too long; I had to invoke rm on subsets several times.
Just after clearing /var/tmp/vi.recover I did a simple two line edit on a
Makefile, then quit vi. That resulted in over 2000 entries in
/var/tmp/vi.recover
but as I write this bug report nvi is not repeating the bug.
Checking the filesystem of an 8.10 system I find 1187 entries accumulated
over about 10 months of use, so the bug wasn't active there.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: nvi 1.81.6-5
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: nvi
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64
** Affects: nvi (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Files/directories created in /var/tmp/vi.recover in absurd quantities - will
exhaust inodes rapidly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442922
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