Very slow start

[Tero Karvinen]

'vim' starts very slowly - more than 5 seconds to start on a modern desktop computer. Breezy, vim-gnome 6.3-078+1ubuntu3. Not using a ~/.vimrc.

$ time vim -c :q foo
real 0m6.391s
user 0m0.190s
sys 0m0.039s

Clocking manually, the 5 seconds is wasted before debug mode (and parsing of vimrc?) starts.
$ vim -D
[5 s wasted]
Entering Debug mode. Type "cont" to continue.
/usr/share/vim/vimrc
line 2: set runtimepath=~/.vim,/etc/vim,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vim63,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after
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[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

mizar:[~] time vim -c :q foo
vim -c :q foo 0.07s user 0.01s system 86% cpu 0.096 total

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

It works now, both in Breezy and in Dapper Flight 6.

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

Being the original reporter, I close this as I can't reproduce it anymore.

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

The problem occurred again, so I took strace of it.

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

Occurred again, got strace.

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

Bypassed the bug with
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vim
$ sudo apt-get install vim
and it works now
$ time vim -c :q foo
real 0m0.083s
user 0m0.039s
sys 0m0.015s

Don't know if it is related, but some other ubuntu packages can be fixed with --purge too, such as firefox after installation of enigmail (bug #34574).

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

I'm a little confused now. Is this a bug or is it not? Any chance you have some filesystem corruption? Thank you.

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

I assume it is a bug. I can have a look if I can see this problem on other machines too. What do you think about the strace?

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Not reproduceable anymore. Bug vanished.