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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: binaryx on December 31, 2003, 03:53:18 am

Title: vi is busy??
Post by: binaryx on December 31, 2003, 03:53:18 am

Well, in a matter of minutes I\'ve done it again.  I used vi a minute ago and accidentally closed the terminal (konsole) w/out closing vi.

Now when I try and run vi, I get the error:

\"/tmp/elv00dc31f01\" is busy\".

I\'m not quite an avid linux user yet, so I\'m not quite sure how to get rid of this.  I would assume I have to dump the temp somehow, but again any help would be appreciated on fixing this.

[edit] went ahead and did a \'rm /tmp/etc....\' and tried again.  Gets past that error and enters the vi editor, but says \'\".profile\" is busy\' at the bottom.[/edit]

Title: vi is busy??
Post by: Tehas on December 31, 2003, 06:51:23 pm

I\'m thinking that it\'s the same problem.  Look for other elv*  files in /tmp and delete them.