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FS#12578 - gvim won't start

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Mauricio Bahamonde (mbahamonde) - Friday, 26 December 2008, 01:47 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 06:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

As a user, when I try to run gvim with no arguments it doesn't start.
As a user, when I try gvim -X it starts but it's very unstable and as soon as I click on the menu bar it crashes...
You can see a strace http://mbahamonde.boaboa.org/gvimstrace.log

In the backtrace you can see several ICE errors... I could not find the causes of it.

If I do sudo gvim it works fine....


Additional info:
* package version(s)
extra/gvim 7.2.65-1

Steps to reproduce:
type gvim when being logged in as a user.
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Closed by  Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Monday, 02 February 2009, 06:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  ... unless you use a sane gtk-engine. Buggy gtk-engines are reason behind many crahses that are unrelated to the host application.
Comment by Bartek Piech (delor) - Friday, 26 December 2008, 05:57 GMT
Do you use any plugins or modified config?
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Friday, 26 December 2008, 09:39 GMT
gvim works here.
Comment by Mauricio Bahamonde (mbahamonde) - Friday, 26 December 2008, 14:56 GMT
Nope, I do not use any plugins nor modified configs since this is a fresh install.
After playing around with it, I discovered that after removing the gtk-qt-engine package gvim works fine...

Is this a bug with gtk-qt-engine then?
Comment by Mauricio Bahamonde (mbahamonde) - Friday, 26 December 2008, 15:38 GMT
Apparently it's a gtk-qt-engine bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk-qt-engine/+bug/270972
Comment by Jens (defcon) - Friday, 26 December 2008, 22:49 GMT
gvim works here too
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Saturday, 27 December 2008, 05:38 GMT
Hi Mauricio,

GTK-engine bugs are unfortunately a common error that let application crash. And for the most part changing the engine for your theme(mean choosing a different theme) is the only option. Thre is nothing I can do in gvim to prevent that. Can I close it?
Comment by Mauricio Bahamonde (mbahamonde) - Saturday, 27 December 2008, 12:21 GMT
Hi Tobias,
Thank you for your comments. I agree, there is not much we can do to prevent this. For now I will uninstall gtk-qt-engine.
You can close this bug since it's not gvim related.
Thank you for your help !
Comment by Joseph Kern (timetrap) - Saturday, 03 January 2009, 13:19 GMT
Wouldn't setting gtk-qt-engine as a conflicting package to gvim be a good idea? (of course it would have to be set back after the bug is resloved)
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Saturday, 03 January 2009, 21:44 GMT
I think that's an abuse of the feature in pacman and should not be utilized to prevent faulty software from being installed. If gtk-qt-engine is really that buggy it should either be fixed or taken down from the repos.

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