gvim freezes when started from a terminal

[Jonas Ådahl]

After upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 I can no longer start gvim (from vim-gnome) from a terminal. It freezes and I have to xkill / force close it. I get the following message printed to the terminal window:

   The application 'gvim' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
   most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
   the application.

This makes sense, because I did kill/destroy the application.

If I start gvim from the unity lense it works as expected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: vim-gnome 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 18 09:49:01 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vim
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (0 days ago)

[JZ (jzhuge)]

Same problem.

[Jonas Ådahl (jadahl)]

A temporary work around is to execute "gvim --nofork &" instead of just gvim to avoid a freeze.

[dhcn (dhcn)]

gvim -f

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Fujisan （富士山） (fujisan)]

Same problem for me on my desktop.
The weird thing is I don't have the problem on my laptop!

What can be the difference?

Packages install on both computers are the same:

vim 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
vim-addon-manager 0.4.3ubuntu1
vim-common 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
vim-doc 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
vim-gnome 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
vim-gtk 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
vim-gui-common 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
vim-latexsuite 20110214.1049-1
vim-runtime 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
vim-scripts 20091011
vim-syntax-gtk 20110314-1
vim-tiny 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3