Comment 2 for bug 510362

1.

jamessan set me straight on how to use -U -u properly so here's an update:

vim.gnome -g -U NONE -u NONE *does* in fact start up a gvim window. vim.gnome -g --noplugin also starts up successfully.

2.

Further investigation revealed that the attached plugin is the culprit. I'm mildly curious why the crash occurs, but I can safely say that I don't need this and it's unreleased code anyway.

3.

For completeness, reportbug output:

Package: vim-gnome
Version: 2:7.2.245-2ubuntu2
Severity: wishlist

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers karmic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500, 'karmic-backports'), (500, 'karmic')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages vim-gnome depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.24.2-1ubuntu2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.28.0-0ubuntu3 The GNOME library - runtime files
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.2-1 The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.2ubuntu1 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.3-1ubuntu2.1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libperl5.10 5.10.0-24ubuntu4 Shared Perl library
ii libpython2.6 2.6.4-0ubuntu3 Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii libruby1.8 1.8.7.174-1ubuntu1 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii libselinux1 2.0.85-2ubuntu2 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1ubuntu1 X11 client-side library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3ubuntu1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii tcl8.4 8.4.19-3 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii vim-common 2:7.2.245-2ubuntu2 Vi IMproved - Common files
ii vim-gui-common 2:7.2.245-2ubuntu2 Vi IMproved - Common GUI files
ii vim-runtime 2:7.2.245-2ubuntu2 Vi IMproved - Runtime files

vim-gnome recommends no packages.

Versions of packages vim-gnome suggests:
pn cscope <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.28.0-0ubuntu1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii ttf-dejavu 2.29-2 Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-
pn vim-doc <none> (no description available)

-- no debconf information