Re: vim broken: unstable / hppa
on Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:54:06PM +0200, Michael Naumann (michael.n@strux.net) wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 18:08, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > I filed a bug on this a few days ago, was wondering if anyone else has
> > been bitten. See #190585
> >
> > vim segfaults on startup on this system. Given that it's my editor of
> > choice (currently using nvi, it *sucks* ;-), this is...frustrating.
> >
> > I'm not sure if the problem is vim or a library. The strace output (see
> > BTS post) doesn't clearly indicate anything failing that I can tell.
> > Any clues on working out what's wrong, or shared tales of woe,
> > appreciated.
>
> This definitly should not happen.
> The only tip I have is: start vim without any .rc-file, and see if it
> still dumps.
>
> You can do so with
> vim -u NONE -U NONE
Thanks for the tip. Yes, it still dumps. I also moved my .viminfo and
.viminfo.tmp files else, no dice.
> If it's a real pain, go to www.vim.org, download the sources and compile
> the newest version (vim 6.2) on your machine. It' really easy.
I may look into that, time permitting.
Peace.
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