Re: strange vim startup/loading error

[Kay Diederichs <kay diederichs uni-konstanz de>]

Marc Wiatrowski wrote:

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> > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:45 -0400, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
> >
> >
> > > There seems to be size limit, maybe number of lines.. characters
> > > bytes, not sure in reference to the swap file creation?  If 
> >
> > I generate 
> >
> > > a test file with on the RHEL 4 U3 box with vim 6.3.82 (RH 
> >
> > 6.3.046-0.40E.7)
> >
> > > perl -e 'for (my $i=0; $i <= 3509; $i++) { print "This is 
> >
> > just one line of text.\n" }' >
> >
> > > test.txt
> > >
> > > and then vim test.txt
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > E295: Read error in swap file
> > > E316: ml_get: cannot find line 1
> > > Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> > >
> > > Can anyone else reproduce this?
> >
> > No, I'm running Update 2, but vim-common is the same version you list.
> > I created your test.txt file and I have no problems opening it.
>
>
> Ok I've narrowed it down some more.  The file is in an nfs mounted directory
> when I get the error.  If I move it to a local disk, no error.  Move it back
> and the error comes back.  
>
> If I mount with nfsvers=2, no error, mount with nfsvers=3 and I get the error.  
> noacl, nolock, tcp, udp... didn't seem to make a difference. I also disable 
> SELinux which made no difference.  The NFS server is running RHEL 3 U5
>
> thanks,
> marc

Maybe your quota are exceeded? what does "quota -v" report?