diff -Nrup a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h	2012-06-05 07:42:49.000000000 -0600
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h	2012-06-07 12:15:21.831318623 -0600
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 #define	_PATH_TTY	"/dev/tty"
 #define	_PATH_UNIX	"/boot/vmlinux"
 #define _PATH_UTMP	"/var/run/utmp"
-#define	_PATH_VI	"/usr/bin/vi"
+#define	_PATH_VI	"/bin/vi"
 #define _PATH_WTMP	"/var/log/wtmp"
 
 /* Provide trailing slash, since mostly used for building pathnames. */