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- From: bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: getting "bogus do_no_page"; strange vi behavior
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.223742.22479@novell.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 22:37:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.145123.20915@novell.com> <1992Aug31.195805.16530@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: Novell, Inc. --Austin
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- In article <1992Aug31.195805.16530@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- >The "bogus do_no_page" error seems to happen on older 386 chips: they
- >sometimes give spurious page-faults. The linux approach is just to
- >print the warning message and return: it seems to work, and the 386 will
- >happily do the page translation correctly the next time around. You
- >should be able to safely uncomment the printk() that prints the message:
- >especially if linux doesn't seem to mind, and you have no other
- >problems.
-
- That sounds reasonable - this is an old machine.
-
- >I think this is due to an incorrect /etc/termcap: the correct fix is
- >naturally just to dump 'vi' and start using some emacs-like editor :-)
- >If that isn't possible, try getting a new termcap from a newer rootdisk,
- >and the problem should hopefully disappear.
-
- Well, I use vi like I use edlin on DOS - get in, get out. I save Emacs
- for when I don't mind waiting. :-) Anyway, thanks, I'll check into
- it.
-
- Brendan
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