messages seen when using vi or vim

[Anasuya M Shankar]

Descriptions:

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When using vi or vim editor on the ubuntu guest, The following messages are observed :
E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line:
E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line:
Press ENTER or type command to continue

This happens both when editing and when quitting.

Environment:
Host: Power8
Guest : ubuntu hosted on Power8

Command line to spawn the ubuntu guest:
qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -M pseries -cpu POWER8 -smp 1 -m 10G -nographic -nodefaults -monitor stdio -serial pty -append "root=/dev/sda" -kernel trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-vmlinuz-generic -device spapr-vscsi -device spapr-vlan,netdev=net0,mac=6c:ae:8b:69:16:11 -netdev bridge,br=virbr0,id=net0 -drive file=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.img.qcow2

[Breno Leitão (breno-leitao)]

I just tested it on my power7+ machine and I don't see this problem. I am wondering if your viminfo didn't get corrupted.

[Deepak C Shetty (dpkshetty)]

I was able to reproduce the problem by going to the .viminfo file and deliberately removing '>' from one of the cmds listed after
the line "# History of marks within files (newest to oldest):" in .viminfo

Adding it back... the issue is not seen.

So it definitely looks like somehow the '>' went missing in the .viminfo in your case.

I also went ahead, removed vim, manually rm -f .viminfo, re-installed vim and used vim and noticed that the .viminfo created afresh works fine w/o exhibiting the issue reported here.

I am on Power8 Host running ubuntu alpha cloudimage in guest.

thanx,
deepak

[Anasuya M Shankar (anasuyams)]

Thanks for the analysis Deepak.
I got an ubuntu image and tried with the same, I dont seem to observe the messages anymore.Looked like my image was corrupted.

[Deepak C Shetty (dpkshetty)]

Can you close this bug then ?