Hello,
Many thanks to those people who replied. There were several suggestions, but
unfortunately none 'solved' the problem. I did find, however, that the
problem stemmed from the use of X forwarding with openSSH. By disabling this
vim worked fine. I have now disabled forwarding except where it is needed,
and in that instance editing is not (generally) required. So the problem has
been 'avoided' but not really 'solved'. I tried using truss to see what was
going on, but have not been able to determine exactly where or why the
messages occur. Oh well.
Thanks go to:
gabriel rosenkoetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
JULIAN, JOHN C. (AIT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mark Luntzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John.
Original problem:
On 05-Feb-01 at 10:08:55 John Horne wrote:
> I am using Openssh (2.3.0p1) and am connecting to a Sun Solaris 8 system
> which has vim 5.7 installed on it. When I connect from my work PC (redhat
> 7), to the Sun and invoke 'view' I get the standard introductory screen -
> "VIM -Vi Improved; version 5.7; by Bram Moolenaar et al." etc. No problem.
> However, if I try and do this from the postmasters PC (redhat 7) and login
> to the Sun system with the postmaster account, I then get the following as
> soon as I invoke vim (or view):
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>Escape,_Key_Cancel" to type
> VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>Home,_Key_Begin" to type
> VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>F1,_Key_Help" to type VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "Shift<Key>F10,_Key_Menu" to type
> VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>F10,Shift_Key_Menu" to type
> VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>KP_Enter,_Key_Execute" to type
> VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "Alt<Key>Return,Alt_Key_KP_Enter" to type
> VirtualBinding
>
> I can see no difference between the postmaster account and my own; no
> difference in any Xresource (Xdefault) settings, no difference in the
> openssh config files; the same view/vim binary is used, etc etc.
>
> If I telnet to the sun then it all works okay (no message) regardless of
> which account is used. So I can only assume that this is caused by openssh
> somewhere. Anyone any ideas as to what is producing the above messages
> (perhaps from something in /usr/dt on the Sun), but also why since the 2
> accounts seem to be identical. The sshd_config file on the Sun has
> X11Forwarding set true.
>
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