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siddibe

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Can't Start Vi Again
« on: September 04, 2005, 11:20:28 am »
Hi all,

Newbie question. Just have for some weeks a ZAURUS 5600. I've tried  a wile ago vi and it works. Started vi yesterday but did some stupid commands in vi (don't remember wich). If i try to start vi now (in the console) i have every time the following "error" :
"/tmp/elv000461f03" is busy
how can i  solve this problem?? I'm also new in linux.

Thanks in advance,
Dirk.

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Can't Start Vi Again
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2005, 11:39:55 am »
vi must have been killed and left behind a lock-file; you can get it working again by deleting the (lock) file which it's talking about: /tmp/elv000461f03 (just do 'rm /tmp/elv*')


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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2005, 04:02:51 pm »
Hi lardman,

Great! It works !  Thanks for your help.

Dirk.