vim crashes with .vimrc

[MK]

This is the previous question I found (#86350):

>When I have a .vimrc file, vim crashes. This happens in Karmic, up to date as of 2009-10-19. If this is a vim or a lib problem, I >can't imagine that I'm the only one seeing this, so I wonder what might be set up wrong.
>Vim: Caught deadly signal ABRT

The poster then says the problem was corrected when s/he installed a *newer* vim package. I need to build vim from source since the distro package does not include all the features I use. I notice that yesterday, by some coincidence, someone posted a follow up to this question saying he was having this same problem "using vim-7.2.tar.bz" which is the source. I have used this source more than a few times on fedora and debian systems without a problem, it has been considered stable for more than a year.

Googling for this "caught deadly signal" does not produce any relevant hits besides here. I've been a member of the vim (user) mailing-list for a while, and it has not been mentioned there. I did an strace; vim does completely process the vimrc file and then aborts somewhat after that -- in any case, as per the original question, it happens with a completely empty .vimrc file.

If updating the vim package back in October fixed the problem, this implies somebody at ubuntu is aware of what it was (and solved the problem by hacking the vim source -- tisk!). Any help you could provide would be much appreciated, my OS is basically a platform for vim ;) and this would make ubuntu unusable for me.

[MK (halfcountplus)]

This actually happens whenever vim source a runtime script, eg:

:syntax enable

will cause the ABRT.

[MK (halfcountplus)]

False alarm!

This was a vim bug patched earlier, qv. the last post in my thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8439582#post8439582
for where to get the patches.

[Will Gray (graywh)]

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