Was it a very large file ? Google returned this
http://plug.skylab.org/200004/msg00393.html
on a searching for:
http://www.google.com/search?q=+Close+error+on+swap+file+vim
talking about the 2G addressing limit.
Sonam
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
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